[img]http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u139/gtroyal/java.gif[/img] This week is JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco. As you may know Java has been round for 13 years since it was renamed from Oak to Java (good thing too). This year’s conference has been just as impressive. The emphasis this year as been on mobility which obviously means communications and communications applications. In a twist Siemens and Sun have announced an open source partnership where by Siemens will provide Sun with telecommunications software:
Telecom equipment manufacturer Ericsson and computer maker Sun Microsystems said they will team up on open source software development, a move they hope will lead to products that can bridge the gap between the communications and information technology sectors. In an announcement late Tuesday, Ericsson said it will contribute parts of its communications server technology to GlassFish, a Sun-sponsored open source development project. GlassFish, which was launched last year, develops applications based on Sun’s open source Java EE 5 technology.
This is interesting from two perspectives. Firstly this is an open source model whereby developers are free to take, implement and extend free of the clutches of product managers overview. Secondly and more importantly, Java implementations own the market for Enterprise Application Platforms (read Websphere, Weblogic, Oracle). Any successful movement towards integration of the enterprise into the telecommunications infrastructure must include Enterprise Java. Thirdly (I know I said two, but I remembered something else), Sun and Solaris literally owns the market for hosted telecommunications infrastructure. Any meaningful move towards extending telephony application services to hosted environments must recognize that fact. With these factors in mind, IBM and Sun among others need to work to provide better tools to integrate these environments so these initiatives all make sense.
