Comments on: Why hasn’t Sun created Sun Mesh?

By: Al

Al — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:20:25 +0000

Actually Dion I think they did but it was too early.

Checkout : http://www.sun.com/software/jxta/

I remember being really excited by it at the time

regards
Al

By: Guy Sayar

Guy Sayar — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:32:30 +0000

Sun does have some offering around this area. Not sure how succesfull it is though: http://www.sun.com/service/sungrid/index.jsp

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:53:21 +0000

I’m reporting you to Google for not using Blogger.

By: Diego Parrilla

Diego Parrilla — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:42:43 +0000

Sun is probably working on it years ago, but they are not agile in the development of products anymore.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:11:33 +0000

Sun is definitely working grid/cloud computing. That is the current “next big thing” y’know. A couple of years ago I wanted my computer to get the Web 2.0. Now I want one of those cloud computers.

Kidding aside, they are definitely working on this. They are well positioned as you mentioned. Of course they will be late to the party, because they are Sun.

Don’t mistake Mesh for the cloud. It is just the opposite. It tries to keep your PCs relevant so that you don’t need the cloud.

By: Chris Custine

Chris Custine — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:50:03 +0000

Somehow Azul comes to mind here as well. So not only is Sun not doing it, but they had to make a mess of Azul’s attempts to fulfill something similar.

By: Sol Young

Sol Young — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:19:33 +0000

You’re right, but Sun would inevitably focus on Java. I think that’d be a big turnoff.

If they went with javascript and open microformats, maybe x2… But again, they’re experts in Java, and would probably stick to Java everywhere, instead of optimizing for the target platform. That would limit their reach.

That said – I’m all for Sun competing in this arena. I’d be all over a Sun Mesh.