JavaOne: Heard at Scott McNealy's General Session

  • The most attended session on the first day of JavaOne was Java Business Integration: A Foundation for SOA
  • Sun purchased SeeBeyond this morning. Scott McNealy stated:
    This is not an example of stunt acquisition!
  • Java owns the Mars Lander market.
  • It's taken 10 years to achieve 1 billion Java smart cards on the market, but it's expected to reach 2 billion within 3 years.
  • Brazilian HealthCare has standardized on Java for the nations healthcare systems and has written 2.5 million lines of code in 4 months
  • There are 4.5 million Java technology developers and 550 user groups and 912 Java Community Process program members.