Looks like things are shaking up in the Sun JavaFX front, and perhaps we could be seing an official release of JavaFX sooner rather than later.
On Moday, at the Adobe Max conference, Sun announced that the JavaFX toolkit is almost ready for release. They also mentioned that they are fully committed to JavaFX. This is despite the fact the Sun expect to lay-off upto 6,000 employees.
Why stay committed to pushing JavaFX with jobs losses on the cards?
Even though much of JavaFX will be released under the same licensing model as Java, Sun know that the success of JavaFX will make them money. Sounds like a good enough reason to stay focused!
Here are a few quotes from Sun officials made at Adobe Max…
Eric Klein (Java Vice Director of Maketing) said:
“We can actually today show you JavaFX running and we are very close to shipping the final product”
and
“The Java business is actually a very profitable business for Sun”
If I was the VP for Java Marketing I would be saying the same things. Interesting times ahead!
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