RE: [ajug-members]: Wal-Mart.com's Sun Desktop PCs

This is interesting! Sun products at Wal-Mart.

Plus last week’s news about Sun and Microsoft agreeing to place nice:

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004-04/sunflash.20040402.3.html

It is my understanding that the Mozilla on Sun Desktop will support XUL. I don’t know about a Flash plug-in.

Flex is $12K for 2 CPUs it is server-based and allows you to generate a Flash application on the fly. I tried it with Tomcat 5. Very cool stuff.

But it seems to me that Sun intends to push Swing as the primary means of application development.

That assumption is based upon a quick review of this website.

http://community.java.net/javadesktop/

Burr

From: Angus Berry [mailto:angus.berry@elken.com]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 11:34 AM
To: ajug-members@ajug.org
Subject: [ajug-members]: Wal-Mart.com's Sun Desktop PCs

I thought that Sun was targeting corporate clients with their Linux disto, but seems they jumped into the consumer waters for $298 at walmart.com:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product_listing.gsp?cat=132690&path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A41937%3A86796%3A132690

I have a few for questions about rich browser clients for anyone who knows the Sun Java Desktop OS:

-What browser is the default?
If it's Mozilla are they including a full Mozilla with XUL

-Are they including Macromedia Flash in their browser, for folks developing Flex GUIs.

-Are they pre-installing JWS?
I suppose this doesn't really matter as it's designed to be self installing from a web page.

I'm interested to see where Sun's new OS fits in to all the current activity around rich Internet application delivery.