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At one point in Android's development, Google was using Sun Java, and it is not really embarrassing to see the CEO of Sun congratulating google on becoming a cu
by econgeeker 15y ago
At one point in Android's development, Google was using Sun Java, and it is not really embarrassing to see the CEO of Sun congratulating google on becoming a customer. For whatever reasons, google later switched to their own VM, etc.
It seems that people who think this is embarrassing to Oracle think that Schwartz is talking about google's VM rather than the Sun one in this blog post.
I think Oracle has been eradicating all signs of Previous Management of Sun from the internet. Not because of the litigation with google but because Sun's management was kinda embarrassing-- at least from the perspective of Oracle.
This post isn't actually damning because it reinforces the fact that Google was a Sun customer, and thus had access to Sun IP, prior to doing their own thing.
- mda 15y agoCan you give a reference about this assumption: "At one point in Android's development, Google was using Sun Java, and it is not really embarrassing to see the CEO of Sun congratulating google on becoming a customer. For whatever reasons, google later switched to their own VM, etc."
- bad_user 15y agoAt one point in Android's development, Google was using Sun Java Android developers still use Oracle's Java in development mode -- only after the code gets compiled for distribution it then gets translated to Dalvik's bytecode. But Dalvik was there from the start and if you're implying that somehow Android used Sun's Java instead of the current Dalvik, then no, it never had.
- nextparadigms 15y agoFrom the moment it launched, Android has always used Dalvik VM. And that post praises them after Android launched.