Sun and Apple Forging Alliance

Wed, 05/09/2007 - 3:26am — Seth Weintraub

The relationship between Sun and Apple hasn't been this hot since the merger talks were going on in the early 90's. With yesterday's announcement of JavaFX taking on Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe Flex Platforms, it can only get hotter. The three major trends that are gathering momentum:

ZFS support in Macintosh Leopard

Open Office port to Macintosh
Sun (Officially) Supports J2EE Development On OS X

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ZFS is gaining a lot of steam and support in the Macintosh community spurred by Apple's inclusion of Disk Utility.app support in pre-release versions of Leopard. The next generation disk file system would allow Apple to take a considerable lead from Microsoft and its next generation WinFS file system which has been delayed time and time again. Macs might not be booting from it come Leopard but they will be able to read and write to it (unless Apple kills it from the Leopard Betas). For a fantastic presentation on the basics of ZFS from Sun's Opensolaris group, head here.

Open Office is getting some much needed porting help from Sun. Open Office, or Star Office as Sun calls its proprietary version, currently has an X11 interface for Mac which is foreign to the vast majority of Macintosh Users. Currently a project called NeoOffice exists with a native/non-X11 front end of Open Office but Sun's forray is likely to be a much bigger and widely supported platform - especially in the coveted Higher Education space. We already know Sun and Google are working together on Open Office and the prospect of Apple and Google working together is not far-fetched.

Sun j2ee environment macintosh The growing support for the J2EE development world on Macintosh is always a good thing. The Macintosh is a natural fit for JAVA development because of its UNIX underpinnings and rapidly expanding userbase. Additionally, with Sun's headfirst dive into easy, open source, platform agnostic development environments (read: JavaFX) they'll need all of the help they can garner. Just ask Eclipse.

Perhaps we can start firing up those merger talks again because Sun and Apple are two very like minded companies and cultures with very complimentary product and service offerings - and don't forget about the common enemy to the North. Although, in this merger, I don't think Sun will be the one doing the buying...

Comments

This is exciting stuff.

Wed, 05/09/2007 - 10:39pm — 9to5Mac Noob

This is exciting stuff. Officially, though, with McNealy's ouster last year, MS and Sun are now friends. I'm a software engineer at Sun and my laptop and workstation both run Windows. And that's mostly because I need Windows for my work in the x64 engineering group.

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Fri, 01/23/2009 - 8:32am — oliver (not verified)

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zfs in leopard

Thu, 05/10/2007 - 10:04pm — 9to5Mac Noob

i have a developer kit with leopard ... i've looked at zfs ... its a piece of crap ... its only an option on DiskUtility ... no GUI management tools; the man pages are incomplete; i tried 3x to copy to a pair of disks (which i formatted using the pain in the butt command line), and 3x it hard crashed my system requiring a reinstall of the os .... ymmv, but i suspect this is a turd wrapped in a cream puff, i just don't understand what the excitement is about.

ZFS in Leopard was

Wed, 06/06/2007 - 2:47pm — macmanager (not verified)

ZFS in Leopard was incomplete, and could not default as a bootable partition yet. It had known developer issues, and probably was part of what caused the OS delay.

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Sun, 01/25/2009 - 9:26am — seo (not verified)

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As soon as Google CEO Eric

Mon, 01/26/2009 - 12:14am — Grace (not verified)

As soon as Google CEO Eric Schmidt was named to the board of directors at Apple some mild speculation ensued suggesting that he'd eventually become CEO of Apple. In fact Schmidt may have been brought in as the set-up pitcher for what may finally be the often rumored merger between Apple and Sun.

Thank you,
Grace

This is something

Sun, 05/27/2007 - 1:49am — bsjpark (not verified)

Definitely this is a food for though. Sun and Apple. I really want to see something happening between the two!

The Sun-Netscape alliance

Thu, 01/29/2009 - 12:08am — Neil (not verified)

The Sun-Netscape alliance will soon ship a suite of e-commerce software that allows businesses to more easily forge electronic links with customers, suppliers, and business partners.

regards,
Neil