Themes of JavaOne II
Gosling and Joy on futures and principles
- Including importance of Java Grande and
- new Java chip aimed at building large paraalel arrays to enable immersive environments
Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) on virtual worlds
Scott McNealy on successful business models
- Producers -- Must be Big
- Service Providers
- Brokers or Agents
- Content Providers
- Do not fall into middle like Compaq , IBM (successfully transitioned to service provider) or perhaps Microsoft
- I-Planet personal/enterprise portal technology used in Sun Intranethttp://www.sun.com/software/iplanet/