Sometimes a simple googling produces completely surprising results. Such was the case tonight when I stumbled across Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog (online or PDF) wherein he warmly welcomes Google Android to the Java community.
What in the world happened since then? Google wrote/bought their own virtual machine(Dalvik) instead of licensing the Sun JVM. Why? Does anyone know the real story about all this? Today Sun folks are slamming Android as "not real Java" and predicting it will soon crumble as developers adapt it to, and deploy it on, more diverse devices.
Adding to the irony is that Eric Schmidt (currently Google's CEO) was formerly Sun's CTO and led Sun's Java development. If there is anyone who understands what Java is about, you'd think it would be him. This makes it doubly interesting that Google chose not to license Android Java from Sun. And this helps explain some of the animosity radiating from Sun.
It's also interesting that Schmidt's salary at Google is quite low: A base of $1 in 2006. Yet he has become a billionaire due to the value of his stock options.
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