So our sister paper Unigram.X threw people off the scent when it reported that delegates at a recent New York Java conference thought that former JavaSoft Inc luminary Kim Polese’s start-up is developing Java BackOffice-style applications (CI No 2,903)? Well, nobody else seems to know anything to the contrary just yet. All Ms Polese would say at yet another Java Developers’ Conference in New York City last week was that the product or products the company is working on are in the area of building and deploying Java applications across the network. But what else would a Java start-up do? She added that the company is getting ready to send out alpha versions pretty soon, and that a Web site would be up by the time of the announcement on May 29 at JavaOne in San Francisco. Ms Polese said it would not be a product announcement, just a company structure briefing. The name of the company has been a closely-guarded secret and Ms Polese had the conference playing Hangman by suggesting that it started with the letter M. Congratulations Marimba? Ms Polese said she is having to fight off venture capitalists desperate to throw money at the company: they are probably staked out in her car park right now hoping for a piece of the action. Ms Polese said that by not releasing the company name, or announcing the nature of the products, the company is going against the grain of hyping Java-related stuff through the roof. And we always thought that less was more.
