Sun criticized for delays on Apache project By Wylie Wong Staff Writer, CNET News.com March 23, 2000, 12:25 p.m. PT URL: http://news.cnet.com/category/0-1003-200-1582238.html
Sun Microsystems is feeling the heat after failing to deliver Web technology to a nonprofit group as promised. The company earlier this year pledged to donate Extensible Markup Language (XML) development tools to the nonprofit Apache Software Foundation, as part of a plan, along with other software makers, to promote adoption of the technology by making free tools available to developers. Sun even trumpeted the gesture in print advertisements and marketing brochures. Now, four months later, angry officials at Apache said the tools have still not been delivered. Sun representatives said the delay is the result of a legal snafu. <snip> "We want this to happen," Davidson said. "Developers I've talked to are looking forward to getting our technology to integrate into the parser. We're on the last leg of getting the legal stuff straightened out." In the meantime, Sun--which previously contributed Java programming language technology to Apache--hopes to work out a licensing agreement soon and give away its XML technology to Apache within a month. All the other companies who promised to donate XML technology to Apache's effort have contributed. Lotus and two independent software developers are giving away their Extensible StyleSheet Language (XSL) technology, which lets users define how a document is presented. DataChannel and BowStreet have also donated technology. Question: What contributions did DataChannel and BowStreet make?
