China buys Sun, not Microsoft

[Java]

Oh this is just so good news:

Read the article here

A deal making Sun Microsystems' new Java Desktop System the de facto standard in China is a good first step in the company's bid to dethrone Microsoft's Windows, but challenges abound, analysts said.

China Standard Software Co. (CSSC), a consortium of government-backed technology companies, said this week it will use Sun's Java Desktop System as the foundation for a national desktop software rollout.

China plans to install at least 200 million copies of an open-standards-based desktop systems, starting with 500,000 to 1 million seats per year. Sun's desktop software costs $100 per employee in the United States.

 

[Sun Baked]

Too bad they didn't go for Darwin.

 

[Counterfit]

Java as a desktop OS? I hope it runs faster than Java apps in OS X...

 

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by Counterfit
Java as a desktop OS? I hope it runs faster than Java apps in OS X...

Java is not an operating system and the Java Desktop System is not just Java. If they wanted, they could have put it together using Darwin for x86, but they'd still need Star Office and various other things to run.

 

[MrMacMan]

Urg, I've uses that.

It was Horrible Slow.

Omg... so slow for everything...

The OS like bottlenecked everything... it was absurd.

They should have gone with some Friendly Chinese-Linux.

Hello ...

Communism... Everything distrubuted Equally (in theory) ... Open Source...

Hello?
Ring a bell?

 

[yamabushi]

Linux is already very popular in China. Possibly second only to illegal copies of Windows.

 

[Counterfit]

Originally posted by bousozoku
Java is not an operating system and the Java Desktop System is not just Java.

Oh, well then...

 

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by MrMacman
Urg, I've uses that.

It was Horrible Slow.

Omg... so slow for everything...

The OS like bottlenecked everything... it was absurd.

They should have gone with some Friendly Chinese-Linux.

Hello ...

Communism... Everything distrubuted Equally (in theory) ... Open Source...

Hello?
Ring a bell?

Well, it is using some Linux underneath the visual layer. However, Linux itself doesn't really support Asian languages particularly well. That's where Java comes to the rescue. Since Java supports Unicode, it's a natural at handling Simplified or Traditional Chinese, as well as Korean and Japanese, and even western languages.

 

[Counterfit]

Linux doesn't use Unicode? Damn, this thread is messing with my brain