Sun's ticker symbol: SUNW -> JAVA

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/java_is_everywhere

by davidw • 19 years ago

19 15 19 years ago

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eposts2• 19 years ago

First it was the "we are the dot in dotcom", now this :(.

How bizarre. Java is (however widely deployed or well engineered) passe at this point. Why try to completely associate with something that was hot 10 years ago?

jsjenkins1682• 19 years ago

JavaME is not passe. It is still the most widely adopted cross-platform on-deck mobile phone environment and is continuing to grow. Sun is also really pushing the upcoming JavaFX, which is the successor to JavaME. This is not old stuff.

mattculbreth3• 19 years ago

No it's not old stuff, and my original post mentioned Java's strengths. My point, however, is more towards marketing. As far as I'm concerned Sun is interesting now due to their innovation in other areas--Solaris, ZFS, Niagra, and "green" datacenters. Java just isn't all that cool anymore.

neuro2• 19 years ago

You need to get out some more kid, seriously. When you're out of mom's basement, walk around the corner, get a job, and you'll witness first-hand, java's remarkable penetration. Obviously, this doesn't speak for the language's effectiveness.

mattculbreth3• 19 years ago

Disregarding the borderline ad hominem attack here, I'd suggest you misunderstood my post. I actually mention that Java has huge penetration--I just don't think associating a company with a $17B market cap to a programming language (which I contend is a bit boring at this point) is all that cool.

sethg• 19 years ago

I am strangely reminded of an academic paper that came out, shortly before the (first) dot-com bubble popped, reporting that even after controlling for all sorts of other factors, companies saw their stock value go up after appending ".com" to their names.

Also, of VA Linux, which went public with the ticker symbol LNUX, decided they didn't want to be distributing Linux hardware after all, and changed their ticker symbol to, umm, something I don't remember. (Disclaimer: I used to own stock in LNUX.)

aston• 19 years ago

Next up: AAPL changes their ticker symbol to IPOD.

damien• 19 years ago

And MSFT becomes BSOD

eposts2• 19 years ago

I like MSFT -> EVIL

dfranke• 19 years ago

I'm surprised that the NASDAQ even allows this.

mpc• 19 years ago

This is hilarious. Sun is the only company that hasn't figured out a way to make money off Java...this won't work either.

Sun's ticker symbol: SUNW -&gt; JAVA

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