Hardware, software and services provider Sun Microsystems Inc has released the beta version of its
Java 2 platform, Standard Edition 1.5.
Sun expects to make the 64-bit Linux and Windows ports to AMD Opteron available with the release of the
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE(TM)) v 1.5 in summer of 2004.
"By including Java technology in the new OpenLinux Workstation, Caldera is leveraging for its customers the momentum the Java 2 platform has as the industry standard for developing and deploying enterprise solutions," said Kristinn Thorleifsson, product marketing manager,
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Caldera announced that it will ship Sun's
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) and Java HotSpot Virtual Machine later this year, enabling developers to leverage the growing pool of Java applications and modules available.
The benchmark was run on a 64-way Sun E10000 configuration with 466 Mhz UltraSPARC II processors and 64GB of memory running the
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), version 1.3.1-02.