There’s a growing feeling that Lucent Technologies Inc’s Inferno network operating system might just end up being the operating system for Java as the company has quietly said it will be all along. The debacle over Sun Microsystems Inc’s own JavaOS operating system has not prevented from the Java language being pressed into use in every conceivable device, but increasingly it is Inferno – or another embedded operating system – that hosts the Java programs or sits at the other end of the network or on the switch. Lucent helped Sun write its specification for the PersonalJava subset of the language devised for small devices with interactive interfaces. Now Lucent is, as it promised, making Inferno available on Sun’s Solaris 2.6 Unix operating system which Sun has touted as a network operating system in its own right; the company’s motto is the network is the computer. Sun let its telco and cable market execs pour praise on Inferno and indeed it is in these markets where Inferno is raising the game. The two say it enables Sun’s customers to build Inferno- based devices such as web phones. The solution, package jointly by Sun and Lucent, is the second prong of their agreement. Lucent has already said it’ll support PersonalJava in Inferno 2.0 due in November (CI No 3,246).
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