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In early news, a man was found frozen in Yerba Buena today, authorities believe that the man was suffering severe withdrawal symptoms when told he could not have a ticket for JavaOne:

Scott McNealy's keynote this morning was recieved well by a packed house. There were some numbers thrown out which were interesting to see:

• 14,000+ attendees of JavaOne 2004
• 4-4.5 Million Java developers worldwide
• $7.5B in the bank for Sun
• $1.8B in R&D
• $131B in installed based
• 22% year/year growth
• java.net has 40,000 members with 1,000 projects
• 550 Java User Groups worldwide
• 600 Million Java downloads
• 20 Million ringtones downloaded from Sprint this FY
• 12 Opterons for auction on ebay

LookingGlass was given the public Open Source launch, with Hideya making his usual personable apearance to push 'the button'

Infinium Labs launched their Phantom Game receiver on stage as well, re-inforcing the subscription model for service with giving the hardware away for free.

Sun's Gaming guru took us through Java-enabled and Java Games through to handsets, re-inforcing the $3B mobile gaming market figures from yesterday:

Some of Scott's outrage ( aka vent spleen ) moments summarised:

• stock options ( govt should keep their noses out )
• virii ( a lot was said that was reasonable, save the notion the the military should court-martial anyone that doesn't use java )
• a verbal open letter to IBM to donate IP ( intellectual property - save confusion with any OSI discussion )

On the topic, a verbal open letter also to Microsoft and RedHat to also contribute to the community initiatives

Really can't beat the keynote finish without the t-shirt cannon shootout. Today's was a tandem bicycle contraption which worked well for the first 3 t-shirts until the chain broke:

Best Sun T-shirt i have seen for a while:

Last, but not least, lets not forget about the Sun vs Apple Hockey match. That's Scott in the Blue jersey with the white hat getting down to business - god knows he must be in better shape than i am because he was looking pretty good on the ice for an older fella: