My first draft was deleted and I'm running to my second life session. So here is my blog entry, short form. Watch this space later for the keynote takeaways video with me and maybeimright!
Here we go:
James Gosling, John Gage, and Chris Mellisinos do the welcome and t-shirt toss! Whoot!
JavaOne opening short film: Java + You!
Rich Grean, EVP of Software takes the stage.
Key Takeaways:
Consumers Drive Innovation!
People Define the Experience!
Things I found super-cool:
Kindle from Amazon
JavaFX. Love it. Love it. Love it. ps? Love it.
Also? The room is connected. I can count 6 people around me who are tweeting. Love it!
48,000,000 JRE downloads per month
Glassfish!
NetBeans!
Ubuntu!
Neil Young and Blu-ray. Hello. That is cool.
Jonathan Schwartz takes the stage to give the 50,000 foot view.
Four fundamental differentiators for Sun:
1. Meet more devices on the planet
2. Make it compelling for developers
3. The Java platform will give more insight to developers about the users of their content
4. It's all going to be free....freely available, philosophically free, no-cost.....truly free!
Here comes the big announcement. Neil Young is on stage!!!
Wanted to do a biography of his music....Archive volume one 45-50 years of music...and he's doing it now on Blu-ray!! He needed technology that would let folks come in at any point...much like a video game. And Blu-ray is providing that technology. And....now we're watching the demo. It's incredible!
Okay....losing battery power...Must.Recharge.Soon.
That's a wrap for now. More later!
