Java takes a commanding position as interoperability between two giants.(USER)

As Java celebrated its tenth birthday last month at the Java One conference, the software technology was in a very different position to that envisaged by its creators at Sun in 1995. Few then could have hoped that it would have taken such a commanding position as the primary software environment outside the Microsoft world--but many at Sun would have wished that their own company would have been the chief beneficiary of that, rather than IBM, whose software efforts were largely ...