Any redhat people around?

Mon Jun 23 21:07:00 GMT 2003

Hi,
Since I know that there are some RedHat people on this list I wondered
if some of them knew some more about the following:
http://www.computerwire.info/brnews/448B94DB6CEB5D0B80256D4B003C37ED
 Red Hat Inc is in discussions with Sun Microsystems Inc about
 launching an open source version of Sun's Java environment,
 according to Red Hat chairman and CEO Matthew Szulik.

 [...]

 Szulik said that Red Hat has been working for five years on open
 source versions of Java technologies such as Just In Time
 compilers and Java Virtual Machines in a clean room environment,
 and has requested the sponsorship of Sun to go ahead with the
 full-scale project.

 [...]

 Szulik said that discussions between Red Hat and Sun had reached
 a "very serious stage", but he would not estimate a timeline for
 the delivery of an open source version of Java.

 [...]
But then again we have heard this since 1996. (Anybody remember JOLT?)
Cheers,
Mark