IW: What's the status of the open-sourcing of Java at this point?

Green: Well, we announced in May at JavaOne that we're going to be doing it. We're still working through some of the issues of licensing and working with all of the partners who have contributed to Java to make sure that we're all in alignment about the license and intellectual property management in the Java stack. We announced that we will be actually releasing first bits of it before the end of this calendar year, and we're on track to do so. So it's a very exciting time to move that whole program along.

IW: It's going to be done in a kind of an incremental fashion?

Green: As we noted, there are blocks of code that we'll be open sourcing initially and we'll get the whole lot done through the first quarter of the next calendar year. So it will be a continuous process. All of Java SE and all of Java ME should be completed, in terms of open source availability, by the end of the first quarter of calendar '07.

IW: And what about the Enterprise Edition?