Apesar disso, a Sun segue 'proprietária' de um tesouro: a tecnologia Java. Começa na próxima terça o JavaOne, em Frisco. As novidades não serão poucas (nem pequenas):

Sun Microsystems, Inc., the caretaker of Java, announced that the Java EE 5 specification has been approved by the Java Community Process (JCP) Java EE/SE Executive Committee in a unanimous vote. According to Sun, "Java EE 5 is the most significant update of the programming model to the Enterprise Java development platform since the launch of J2EE 1.2 in December 1999."

New features developers will find in Java EE 5 include support for Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 , a Java Persistence API jointly developed by Sun and Oracle, and updated Web Services, including JAX-WS 2.0 and JAXB 2.0, which support the latest W3C and WS-I standards (e.g. SOAP 1.2, WSDL 1.1), protocol and transport independence, and the REST style of Web services.

Java EE will aso incorporate JavaServer Faces (JSF) 1.2 to facilitate the building of Web 2.0 applications with AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript Technology and XML).

[Surrupiado da ZDNet]

A única coisa que não devemos ver no JavaONE é a entrada da Sun no consórcio Eclipse. Ela segue cheia de exigências. A primeira e mais importante, para eles: Mudar o nome!
Hehe.. se fosse assim tão relevante a turma deveria fazer um concurso para escolher o mais criativo. Meus 2 cents: Girasol!