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Oracle, though, has been a bit unprepared for the volume of activity in the Java world, Gosling, said. "We do 15 million downloads of the JRE (Java Runtime Edition) a week on average," he said.
Also appearing onstage at OpenWorld was John Fowler, Sun vice president of systems. "My team is excited about working closely with Oracle because we have been working with Oracle now [for] what's measured in decades," Fowler said. He lauded recent Sun-Oracle performance benchmarks and noted the recently introduced Sun-Oracle Exadata Database Machine Version 2, which combines Sun hardware with Oracle's database and storage management software. Fowler also announced the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array, which integrates 1.6TB of Flash storage into a device that looks like a server.
McNealy cited a long list of Sun accomplishments, including the Network File System, the various editions of Java, Sparc's being the first 64-bit volume RISC architecture, and the company's contributions to open source, such as its use of Berkeley Unix. "We were the Red Hat of Berkeley Unix," he said.
In a brief interview after the evening presentation, Tim Bray, Sun's director of Web technologies, would not comment on whether the Sun name would go away as part of the merger with Oracle or whether Sun would become a division of Oracle.
In a Top 10 list entitled "Top 10 Signs Engineers Have Gone Wild," McNealy took potshots at Apple for not supporting Java on its iPhone. "Friends don't let friends type on an iPhone especially since it doesn't run Java. Are you listening, Steve," McNealy said, referring to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. "[The iPhone is] the only device on the planet that doesn't run Java."
He also ridiculed President Barack Obama's winning of the Nobel Peace prize last week, without mentioning the President by name. One of the engineering signs on McNealy's list pertained to a Nobel prize for a gas mask bra, leading McNealy to follow the reference with a comment that such an award was "no more ridiculous than some other Nobel prizes that I've heard of."
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