Freed of Executive Constraints, Jonathan Schwartz Blogs on Threats from the Competition
With his tenure in Sun’s executive suite behind him, Jonathan Schwartz exercises his new found liberty to disclose two incidents involving Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and their respective threats to sue Sun for patent infringement. Schwartz relates how Sun successfully played the countersuit card, staving off the threatened litigation.
Sun White Paper Provides Feature Overview, Solution’s Marketplace Value
Learn more about the Sun Java Communications Suite in a Sun white paper focused on relaying to service providers how the communications and collaboration solution can help them build their business. Its capabilities, such as enhanced email indexing and search; interoperability with Mac’s iCal and Mozilla’s Thunderbird/Lightning calendars, Microsoft Outlook, etc.; and native calendar synchronization with mobile devices that support CalDAV, such as Apple’s iPhone, are a few reasons why the Communication Suite is worth investigating.
To Help Protect OSes Against Certain Types of Attacks 
The National Security Agency (NSA) is working with Sun, Apple and Red Hat “to develop secure baselines for their products,” commented Richard Schaeffer, the NSA’s information assurance director, on Nov. 17 at a hearing before the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security.
Sun plans on building a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) for Apple iPhone and the iTouch with intentions of releasing the JVM after June, enabling Java applications to run on Apple’s popular mobile devices.
Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun, said the JVM will be made available for free “as quickly as possible” after Apple releases the final version of the iPhone 2.0 software and SDK in June.
Sun decided it could enable Java to run on the iPhone after Apple released an SDK for the iPhone on March 6th. Klein said the JVM is to be based on the Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME), and added that he believes developers will be able to make an application for the iPhone with the JVM without needing to go to the iPhone SDK.
