For example, IBM reduced its level of participation in JavaOne 2003 significantly from previous years. In fact, the referenced article‘s Jason Bloomberg quote on IBM’s relationship to Sun and Java could almost be applied to what many of us hope happens today with Oracle, Google, and Java: “I wouldn’t say that by any means they’re [IBM] distancing themselves from Java, but I would say they’re distancing themselves from Sun. . . . ”

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