Doug Kaye is talking about Sun being one of the Web Services losers and Jason Whittington mentioned recent troubles at Sun Microsystems.  Sun held a lunch briefing for my employer and one of the leads on my team went.  According to him, half the briefing sounded more like a stock broker pushing the latest pick [1].  The other half was spent telling attendees not to do web services.  The recommended alternative was JINI.  I believe that JINI means mobile code, which is one way to interop, I suppose.  But I think that it also means an entirely new addressing scheme.  So it sounds like JINI is services, without the web.

[1] Did you know that SUNW supposedly has $5B in the bank, no debt, and a market cap of a around $11.6 B.  You could buy Sun for $6.6 billion, and own Java.  Seems like Java's worth 6 billion.

Very interesting. Sun has been slipping Jini inside its presentations for a few years now. Their story is that WS covers millions of computers, but Jini will cover zillions devices. Several JavaOne slides as well as their SunONE presentations share this story. Considering current generation of WS is all about pushing data around (and godawful, broken text data at that), Sun's story does have a merit but no listner.

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