Jonathan Schwartz the current President and CEO of Sun Microsystems, earlier today unveiled on his blog, some of their future plans for something that was internally known as “Project Vector”.
The revenues to Sun were also getting big enough for us to think about building a more formal business around Java’s distribution power – to make it available to the entire Java community, not simply one or two search companies on yearly contracts.
According to Schwartz, the project will most likely to be named Java App Store(Apple App Store anyone?) As you might know, Java has one of the largest distribution muscles out there, and Adobe’s Flash, and Microsoft’s Windows are just about its only peers when measured by runtime volume. Java is used in billions of PCs’, mobile devices, and smartcards, millions of enterprise servers, set top boxes, Blu-Ray DVD players and a growing number Kindles.
In similarity to Apple’s App Store, the submitted application has to be approved before its available to the public.
Vector is a network service to connect companies of all sizes and types to the roughly one billion Java users all over the world. Vector (which we’ll likely rename the Java Store), has the potential to deliver the world’s largest audience to developers and businesses leveraging Java and JavaFX.
According to Schwartz they will go into more details around Project Vector’s technology, roadmap, features and business model at JavaOne, which will be held on June 1.
Source: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/will_java_be_the_world
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