Sun's Brewin toasts Java

21.07.2006

RB: I don't know the answer to that. My best guess is it will happen within the year.

IW: Within this year? Calendar year?

RB: No, probably by the end of this fiscal year, which for us is June.

IW: Why so long?

RB: The reason why is if we're going to open-source something, it's the same problem we have with Solaris, which is we need to go through the code line by line, we need to go through all of our legal agreements. We need to make sure that there are no encumbrances on that code. So if we're going to open-source the software, the people that use it have to be, for lack of a better word, safe. They have to be able to use that code safely without worry.