Hewlett-Packard jointly SUN’s Java ME push smart phones to upgrade
Sun Microsystems is looking to reduce the fragmentation of Java Platform Micro Edition Java ME) and its first step is to offer a compiled binary to Hewlett-Packard for its new HP iPAQ 900 series of Business Messenger smartphones.
Sun Engineering Services handled the development, compile and testing of the Java Wireless Client binaries – Sun’s Java ME implementation for DELL INSPIRON 500M SERIES laptop battery handsets — for the iPaq, working in conjunction with HP to implement a specific feature set.
The Sun Java Wireless Client software integrates with the Windows Mobile 6.1 native user interface, enabling customers to view e-mail in the original HTML format and access contact information, among other features.
Normally, Sun delivers a code base to Java ME licensees, and they do their own development, testing and tuning. However, this has allowed fragmentation to creep into the product line as different cell phone makers introduced their own changes.
By delivering a binary, Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) kills two birds with one stone; it prevents these fragmentations, and it takes the load off HP, or any other licensee that chooses to undertake a similar effort, freeing the company to focus on its phone.
"What it amounts to is vendors like HP want the Java virtual machine on their platform, but the question is where is their expertise on the phone best spent?" said David Hopert, group marketing manager for Java mobile technology at Sun.
Minimizing fragmentation
"What they have done is handed over to us the duties of optimizing so they spend a lot less time of making Java run well. We in turn can minimize the DELL INSPIRON 8600 battery of bugs and fragmentation that get into the phone," he added.
All HP has to do is connect the completed VM to its own internal applications. The two companies coordinated their development cycles, sharing builds to insure compatibility along the way and make sure nothing has changed.
"By offering Java on our newest HP iPaq Business Messenger, we are able to deliver a richer, enhanced mobile experience for our customers," said Susan Macke, vice president of marketing for the handheld global business unit at HP in a statement. "The development of the new smartphone and our work with Sun Microsystems reinforces HP’s commitment to meeting the growing and varied needs of our mobile users."
Sun is primarily interested in avoiding the fragmentation that has made porting Java ME applications between different smart phones difficult. "We can avoid the fragmentation issue by providing more of a consistent implementation across platforms," Hopert said.
The new HP iPAQ 900 series Business Messenger features Windows Mobile 6.1, wireless technologies like tri-band UMTS/HSDPA, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. It offers mobile e-mail, voice and access to business-critical applications through the Windows and Java interfaces. It will ship at the end of this month.
Sun’s business in China deadlock in the sunset IBM plans to push its market share erode
Sun most recently reported quarter showed that as at the end of August, Sun quarter net loss amounted to 147 million, so far, Sun has lost four consecutive quarters. At the same time, due to the financial crisis and the impact of mergers and acquisitions in China, the world’s fastest-growing parts of the server market, Sun’s business situation of HP PAVILION ZV5000 battery.
At the same time, Sun in the Chinese market is facing pressure from the competitor, Sun’s competitors IBM China as competition for customer resource, has launched its official website sunset (Sun-set) an ex-gratia scheme, which aims to Incentive Sun users to quickly shift to IBM’s system platform.
Sun continued to "loss of blood"
Sun recently reported quarter showed that as at the end of August, Sun quarter net loss 147 million. As the EU has not yet approved the merger between the two sides take each other’s business integration software and hardware has not yet begun, Sun is still in a "loss of blood" state.
IDC recently released data show that the second quarter of this year, Sun’s market share of 9% over the same period last year a decrease of 1 percentage point, while its rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard’s market share, respectively 34.5% and 28.5%, Dell’s market share of of 12.4%. IDC also noted that, Sun in the second quarter sales fell 37%, as compared with the other server vendors have dropped the most serious.
Sun reporter on this channel for domestic partners, interviews, most interviewed indicated that Sun’s business compared with last year, indeed there is a clear decline. However, they also believe that, Sun’s predicament in the server industry is a common phenomenon, mainly due to the outbreak of the financial crisis in the industry to compress the server the user purchasing plans. "If you remove these factors, Sun’s business past two years look pretty stable." Channel Nasi Hengtai of a business staff, told reporters, Sun’s sales actually dropped more obvious, but it does not determine the financial crisis or the impact of mergers and acquisitions.
Sun channel partners in China, double-flag business leader for the sun to tell reporters Zhang, Sun is currently still preserved the traditional advantages: system safety, efficiency, fast, due to adopt open-source system, the customer does not require frequent patching. "So, like the Sun’s people do not buy IBM, Sun has been rooted in their minds."
According to report, due to years of HP PAVILION ZE4400 battery, industry users still cherish expectations Sun. In addition, because the acquirer and the recent strength of Oracle’s commitment, Sun end-user industries, said, "Sun’s technology or the best server vendor, but their business is not working well, their product quality or the reassuring . "
But even so, four consecutive quarterly losses, Sun has been unable to withstand operating pressures. October 21, Sun announced a new round of layoffs, with maximum reduction of 3,000 jobs, equivalent to the total number of Sun employees about 10%.