Sun makes play for games market
http://news.com.com/2100-1043_3-1012891.html?tag=fd_top
WOO-HOO!
Many Things are now Clear, that were cloudy before.
Congratulations Chris, you’ve certainly worked hard enough to have earned this chance, many times over…
Way cool! Way to go Chris, Jeff, and the other Sun guys that lurk here. The next few months are going to be exciting.
Very nice! Congratulations on getting your own division. 
I just found the link on Slashdot 
Congratulations
"Besides lobbying for Java, the game division will pitch game publishers on servers, software and other infrastructure needed to run online games. IBM last year helped launch Butterfly.net, a project to apply grid supercomputing techniques to running online games, and a number of specialists have formed companies to address online gaming mechanics. "
Wooohooo
Coolness 8)
Congrats!
Thank you all! Sorry we could not say anythign until now. Perhaps we will write a book
Just wait until JavaOne ;D
-SG
Hurrah!
Gis a job.
Cas
I am glad that some Sun employees are listening to develoeprs…
let the gaming in Java begin!
Phenomenal! 2003, the Year of Games indeed! The title is finally appropiate. ;D
There seems to be a big focus on multi-channel access to MMO games, which is something we all know Java will excel at. Is there going to be a large push for getting Java technology on the client end as well? It seems to be added as an afterthought in those two articles that AAA games and consoles might play a part.
Is this a flat out push for a percentage of the games market as a whole, or is the policy to focus on a few areas and utterly control them first?
Good job Sun, and congratulations Chris!
That’s very good news!
We will have very strong support now!
Congratulations Chris!
[quote]Is there going to be a large push for getting Java technology on the client end as well? It seems to be added as an afterthought in those two articles that AAA games and consoles might play a part.
Is this a flat out push for a percentage of the games market as a whole, or is the policy to focus on a few areas and utterly control them first?
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Things will be made clearer next week at JavaOne. Also, we will be maintaining a daily blog for the Video Game Summit, which can be seen here:
http://javaone.key3media.com/sf2003/index.php?d=conference&s=game_summit
Also, just to say again, that this announcement has been made possible due to the efforts of several people, like Jeff Kesselman and Doug Twilleager, and of course, the java game development community. Nothing great is built alone and I am confidant that we have the right people in place that will make Java technology a focal point for the game development community.
Thank you all for your continued support. It gets REAL interesting starting…now.
-SG
Way to go guys!!! I’m glad that you’ve managed to convince your employers that the next Java frontier is games. I was starting to get annoyed with YAWTDSC (Yet Another Way To Do Server Code). So, do we refer to you now as “The GTG Guys”? I suppose it has a ring to it. At least the the group wasn’t called “Game Advertising Group of Engineers”! ;D
EDIT: Hey, SG. What’s that hash that’s suddenly appeared under our stars?
man…been waiting for this years … thanks!!!
[quote]EDIT: Hey, SG. What’s that hash that’s suddenly appeared under our stars?
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Bad board hack No time to fix befor JavaOne and the relaunch of Javagam…oops. More info to come shortly
-SG
First the gaming industry, then the world! MWA HA HA HA HA! ;D
more info:
this is very cool. I can’t wait to hear the rest of what you guys have in store for J1
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Sun’s main business is servers and back-end infrastructure. But, have no fear, wait until next week, and all of you client guys will be very very happy. ;D
Doug
I doubt that because it is really hard to make me happy. But you will get your chance …
[hint] I’m always happy when I’m drunk. [/hint]
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But, have no fear, wait until next week, and all of you client guys will be very very happy. ;D
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Maybe when the needed improvements are delivered