We at Sun have run across the blog for Akkana Peck who provided a summary of LinuxWorld 2004 in which she states:
"I did my usual quick survey of which of the big booths were running linux in their booth. Oracle and Redhat were clear winners, with no definite Windows boxes (a few in each case which were running full screen presentation software so I couldn't tell what the OS was). Sun was the worst, with only one Linux box I saw, and the rest all Windows: no Solaris that I saw.."
Boy was she fooled. All the demos in Sun's booth (and there were lots of them) were running either Solaris or Linux. Oh, there was probably a Windows box or two to demonstrate interoperability, but nearly all of the demoes were running the Java Desktop System on Linux or Solaris. How could Akkana have been so wrong?
Keep in mind that JDS is designed to be "familiar" to Windows users. If you look at this photo from the Sun booth at LinuxWorld, you'll see numerous monitors with what might look to the untrained eye like Windows. Nope - all JDS!
Thanks Akkana for validating that we've hit the mark with our UI!
