[desktop-discuss] Status of "Java Desktop System"

[Alan Coopersmith]

MC wrote:
> JDS in 2007 appears to boolean equal Gnome. 

GNOME + Firefox + Thunderbird + StarOffice, with a Sun custom
theme and various other Sun/Solaris customizations.

> What does it have to do with Java?  

If I recall correctly, the original rationale was it was the
Desktop System you would want to use to develop and/or run
Java applications, but really it was always a bit of a stretch
and came out of the "Java is our best known brand name, so we
should put it on all Sun products" phase of Sun marketing,
where even our original AMD64 workstations became the
"Sun Java Workstation 1100z".

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering