Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OSX
Is this finally the beginning of the vaunted ‘enterprise penetration’ Apple has been seeking for years? And Java notwithstanding, how much of the luster of this alliance is driven by Apple devices that are succeeding in the enterprise, namely the iPhone and iPad? (Never before has Apple succeeded in wooing C-level brass to their devices. Now, with iOS, they’re in every boardroom.)
From Oracle PR:
REDWOOD SHORES and CUPERTINO, California—November 12, 2010—Oracle and Apple® today announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS® X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and the foundation for a new graphical client. OpenJDK will make Apple’s Java technology available to open source developers so they can access and contribute to the effort.
“We are excited to welcome Apple as a significant contributor in the growing OpenJDK community,” said Hasan Rizvi, Oracle’s senior vice president of Development. “The availability of Java on Mac OS X plays a key role in the cross-platform promise of the Java platform. The Java developer community can rest assured that the leading edge Java environment will continue to be available on Mac OS X in the future. Combined with last month’s announcement of IBM joining the OpenJDK, the project now has the backing of three of the biggest names in software.”
(Emphasis mine.)
Not a huge announcement in terms of drama, but important as a future-tense concept. If Macs are ever going to be truly enterprise-capable machines, they need their runtime environments standardized and up to snuff in the eyes of the big vendors (and thus application/IT managers everywhere).
Note specifically the bolded part of Oracle SVP Hasan Rizvi’s press statement.
One big name missing: Google.
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