On February 25th, in the largest business conference hall in the new building of Longteng Company Headquarters in Zhongguancun, Beijing, Longteng Company held a press conference to welcome guests from the mainstream IT and game circles at home and abroad.

Longteng invited several well-known academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a deputy secretary-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the chairman of the Asian Computer Software Development Common Foundation.

What puzzled the IT reporters was that in the summary of the meeting report sent by the official Longteng in advance today, the first speaker was SUN, and the content summary turned out to be the release of a new generation of JA|VA version!

"SUN was delisted from the United States in 2003 when it was close to bankruptcy, without receiving any capital injection from a venture capital consortium, and it is said that the majority shareholder changed hands, and the core management of SUN left 70% of the senior management team, and then stabilized, as if it had lost its message, so low-key that people could not feel its existence!" A reporter looked at the summary text in his hand and said with some emotion.

"If it weren't for SUN continuing to maintain JA|The operation of the VA community, many people have indeed forgotten about them, and the new team is too low-key, just like the previous SUN company. Now four years later, the mysterious major shareholder has not appeared, and in recent years, there have been rumors that China's Longteng has moved into SUN, but there has been no response from both companies. Another reporter picked up.

"In recent years, SUN's business development on mobile terminals has been getting better and better, and the fit with Android is getting higher and higher. Either the two companies are in-depth cooperation or strategic partnerships, or SUN has become a subsidiary of Longteng. The mystery will be revealed today! ”

"I believe that Longteng has already purchased SUN, have you forgotten jì? Minecraft put forward a variety of demanding requirements during the closed beta. It needs to be strongVA Virtual Machine Support! A reporter who is quite familiar with the game software industry said in one sentence.

These reporters, who are quite familiar with commercial mergers and acquisitions in the IT industry, suddenly realized, everyone guessed something, it seems that Longteng's acquisition of SUN should be eight or nine years old, otherwise it would not be so high-profile today.

Next, they began to count the IT companies under Longteng, including Apple and Google, and they should have developed or participated in the development of the Android operating system, dominating more than 80% of the market share of mobile terminal devices. .NET Rivalry JA|VA。 This is the rhythm of soft and hard in the computer industry!

Everyone was stunned, and some reporters who didn't know much about business mergers and acquisitions of IT companies and were only proficient in game software were looking at the problem from another angle.

"SUN unveils the next generation of JA|VA version, that should be JA|VA6.0? I remember that they were 5.0 three years ago, and it seems that they have finally released a new version after three years. A reporter asked his companion in a whisper.

"It must be so, the spokesperson for SUN's external marketing and promotion department mentioned this three months ago, and it is not surprising that 6.0 is released today. It's just that I didn't expect that they didn't put this version on the Worldwide Developers Conference in May, could it be related to Minecraft? "This colleague has a big brain. One such possibility came to mind.

"Perhaps! Haha, I'm going to tell this news to China JA|The head of the VA community forum, who told them not to send someone over today? To see my exclusive inside scoop, have to treat me to dinner! The reporter took out his phone and texted.

"Another sue sù him. SUN was the first to release the news at the press conference of Longteng Company, saying that there is no cat between the two companies, who believes it! He doesn't come. It's a big loss.,Still doing JA|. What about the VA developer community. I don't have any eyesight at all...... "My colleague laughed along.

In addition to the first link, SUN released JA|In addition to VA6.0, there were two other press conference contents observed by many people. One is the Minecraft demo and launch, and the other is Dragon Entertainment's strategic plans for software and mobile devices.

At 9 o'clock, the press conference started on time, the senior directors of Longteng Company walked into the venue in turn, there were several blonde foreigners following behind, some reporters recognized it as someone from SUN Company, everyone had a smile on their faces, it seems that today's press conference should be a good thing.

The first to speak was Yang Yun, who sat in the middle of the rostrum, looked at the hundreds of reporters and guests below, and said with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, welcome everyone, it is my honor to be able to participate in Longteng's press conference. If anyone here knows Larsson from Sweden, you can inform him now, ask him to contact me at this time, and I can arrange for a technician to let him participate in the online video conference, and I will reimburse you for the international call. He's a very enthusiastic guy and has been following Longteng's game products, and I'm grateful to him. ”

Everyone laughed, Yang Yun was greeting Larson from afar, and he was also telling everyone that from today onwards, the gambling contract officially took effect, Larson bet that "Minecraft" would not sell 1 million copies within half a year, and Yang Yun disguised the deadline of the gambling contract into a global developer conference three months later, and today the game was officially launched, indicating that Yang Yun is very confident that it will reach 1 million copies of sales within 3 months.

The two sides are really on the bar!

"Now, Mr. David Cooper, President of SUN Asia!"

Yang Yun turned around to invite David Cooper, the audience burst into applause, David Cooper walked out of the stage, waved to everyone frequently, and then shook hands with Yang Yun, bent over half of his body to salute.

"I'm glad you all remember us at SUN, which released JA| three years agoI came to China when VA5.0, when Mr. Liu of China Lenovo Group asked me when 6.0 would come out, I patted my chest and said 2005, but then it was delayed again and again, and it was not until now that the official version 6.0 was launched, I was really embarrassed to see Mr. Liu again. ”

David Cooper's words caused everyone to laugh, and the guests in the audience also slapped Mr. Liu, and he gave two thumbs up to the stage after applauding, in exchange for David Cooper's nodding with a smile in return.

"JA|, for the first time in three yearsVA6.0 version, this is not because SUN programmers are lazy, nor is it because of any technical bottlenecks. In fact, our development went very smoothly, and the alpha version of 6.0 was confirmed in the first half of 2006, which was originally scheduled to be released in June last year, but we ran into stricter requirements, and Minecraft almost killed us! ”

David Cooper made a witty remark that attributed the blame for the project's postponement to "Minecraft", in fact, he was praising it.

It's the high standard of this game, and the strict requirements guide zhì |The postponement of the release of VA6.0, 6.0 found a lot of problems when running Minecraft, and this game, which is extremely demanding on computer hardware and virtual machines, exposed the instability of the 6.0 alpha versionThe VA platform and the Minecraft game were being modified, so it dragged on for another year.

After hearing the explanation, everyone suddenly realized, and then became more curious about this game, what kind of masterpiece can make JA|VA HAS BEEN ADJUSTED AND MODIFIED FROM THE LOW-LEVEL LIBRARY, THE VIRTUAL MACHINE OF THE RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT, ALL THE WAY TO THE JAVA LANGUAGE?

"Thanks to the demanding game Minecraft, 6.0 will be JA|The most stable version of VA in history, maybe it doesn't even need to be patched, and it can be used until 2010, when we launched JA|VA7.0 Oh, I'd better retract what I just said, if I had made a promise in front of too many people today, in case there would be another bounce in the future, I think I would be embarrassed to come to China to see you again. ”

David Cooper drove the audience into the mood and demonstrated the new features of version 6.0 with the technicians, which took about half an hour.

His commentary is humorous and funny, from shallow to deep, many people in the IT news media can also understand the changes and effects of the new version, and occasionally encounter something that they don't understand and need interactive Q&A. David Cooper also cooperated with the new feature description manual officially released by SUN, and explained it very clearly.

JA|VA6.0 has officially entered people's lives unconsciously, and there are 5 million JA|s in the worldVA programmers will benefit from a more efficient and powerful development platform that provides more JA|s for the growing number of mobile devicesVA software.

After the first session, the audience took a five-minute break, David Cooper did not step down, the staff removed the demonstration equipment, he walked to Yang Yun, who was sitting and resting on the side of the booth, and the two said something with a smile on their faces, nodding frequently.

The reporters cheered up, and according to the next link, it should be the release of "Minecraft".

But five minutes later, it was David Cooper, and he turned back, held up the microphone and said, "I'm sorry, I'm going to interrupt you and announce the third item of today's press conference in advance." The next thing I want to announce is that after careful consideration and proposal by the senior management of SUN, and with the consent of Yang Yun, president of Longteng Entertainment & Game Company, from now on, SUN will make a decision on JA|VA technology is fully open source! ”

Rumble!

What the? JA|VA Open Source ???

The reporters were stunned, they heard right? It's not April Fool's news, is it?

Blockbuster news, this is absolutely unbelievable shocking news! (To be continued......)