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20070413 Friday April 13, 2007

Acquisition soothes the savaje beast

Java ME technology took another step toward total world domination yesterday with the acquisition of the technology from SavaJe, creator of a Java technology-based OS for cell phones.

See:

Java ME in the OS

Here's a quote: 

 Sun Microsystems announced today that 
 it is acquiring the assets of SavaJe 
 Technologies and will  reveal further 
 details at its JavaOne conference next 
 month.  SavaJe's claim to fame is its 
 Java-based embedded operating system, 
 which was shown running in a mobile 
 phone at JavaOne last May.
Now that we bought SavaJe, hopefully we can finally get rid of the silly misspelled capital letter "J" in the middle of their name. Or, else we're going to have to change our name for Java ME technology, to gava ME technology. You know... the law of conservation of letters in the universe and all that.

[Java ME and J2ME] ( April 13, 2007 09:16 AM ) Permalink Comments [3]

Comments:

Nice spin you have there ;-) Savaje is a product looking for a niche...

Posted by asj on April 13, 2007 at 10:16 AM PDT #

Great idea Hinkmond - I'll take that over to the branding folks! Hmm.... On second thought I'm worried it may make people think of guava and lead to further spelling errors :)

Posted by J. Lehrbaum on April 13, 2007 at 03:10 PM PDT #

Doesn't SavaJe support swing? I want to develop some mobile phone apps for our company to make life easier for our supervisors, however all the current phones seem to only support different subsets of JavaME and seem to be a challenge to support. Anyway this is a good move, long overdue, better than trying to use a Unix like kernel. Perhaps Sun could have another go at MAJC now.

Posted by Peter on April 16, 2007 at 02:03 PM PDT #

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