IBM, Sun likely to continue Java rift
Just because IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. made a show of playing nice at JavaOne this week in San Francisco does not mean the two companies have entirely repaired their rift over the development of Java standards, observers at the annual Java developers conference said.
At JavaOne Wednesday Robert LeBlanc, general manager of WebSphere for IBM, said IBM is committed to working within the group that sets the Java standards, called the Java Community Process, (JCP) to propel Java forward, despite any disagreement his company has had with Sun over the evolution of Java.
"We're going to continue to participate and drive Java through the community," Le Blanc said in a keynote Wednesday afternoon. "We've had our little differences [with Sun] in the process, but we
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