Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers.
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We will now offer a single set of APIs, libraries and programming tools for everything from systems such as palm-tops and handheld devices to powerful servers.
We want to get that body to really be the body that keeps the Linux community together in terms of its APIs and the other standard pieces of Linux, because today it's really controlled by a set of individuals. And they've done a fabulous job of keeping it together, but you have to have something that's a little more structured and repeatable,
There are some real competitive issues going on, and (Microsoft) needs to respond, not just with products and offerings for consumers but also (with) compelling products and APIs for developers, ... There's a recognition that people are embracing the Web as a platform, and they (Microsoft) want to be there as well.
There was some discussion about what runtime APIs applications Apple would support, whether they would support some of ours or some of Sun's.