Sun Microsystems Inc has reshuffled executives in its Software Products and Platforms group to focus on the community of Java and Jini technology licensees. Sun has also consolidated development on Java and Jini into a single technology group. The company used to have two groups: one, called Consumer and Embedded, focussed on Java 2 Micro-edition and Personal Java; the other, called Java Software, worked on Java 2 Standard and Enterprise Editions. From now on, there will be a single development and engineering group. A second group, headed by George Paolini, will work on building the Java-Jini community and standardizing Sun’s policy and practices on community source.
That will almost certainly mean refinements to Sun’s controversial Community Source License (CSL), spokesperson David Harrah told ComputerWire. I don’t think we’re completely happy with the way things are, he said. That’s certainly within [Paolini’s] domain. It will continue our strategy of loosening and opening up our technology over time. In other Sun news, the announcement of Java 2 for the Linux platform, which was scheduled for this week but delayed at the last moment, seems almost certain to be made on Tuesday December 7.
