The past Monday in preparation for the big event of the week(the JavaOne),the community of developers and collaborators joined to talk about some of the new state of the art technologies driving the IT and Developer word, focused in three mayor systems: the OpenSolaris operative system, Netbeans Java IDE tool and Glassfish open application server. 

In the first part of the meeting we had a very interesting community debate where Tim O’Reilly(founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media) along with Richard Green (Executive Vice President, Software, Sun Microsystems, Inc.) and other people from SUN talk about the WEB 2.0 and the collaboration among the community driving the innovation in the entire technology world.

Now, what we can say about the WEB 2.0 in this moment, when it’s been almost three years since Tim O’Reilly used it to describe the new era in the business bases on the open communities and collaboration, driving to the “commoditization” of software among other things; I think there’s a lot to said, and that was clear when we saw Rich Green, talking about open sourcing the entire software system of SUN, and talking about integrating more technologies to the JVM and SUN aiming to reach more developers to adopt that point of view.   The thing is, if today enterprises like SUN don’t make that change, they will probably pay the price for it, because the needs of the people have changed, and it’s important if we can reach to that people, to give them what they want, and what they need today is instant information, services, etc.. And Sun is making that change, which it’s not easy, especially for a company who started with computer sales as its main business, like IBM; what makes more difficult to transform it into a “google” like company.

At least the question is in the air, as Tim O’Reilly said “what if google where the telephone company?”.  And the time for Sun to respond that question has come, because the WEB 2.0 idea in Sun has come serious; who knows maybe in a couple of year Sun will be using “The Network is the People”. 

 

Me and James Gosling(Father of Java)

Tim O'Reilly Presentation

Me and my mentor Gregg Sporar