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Re: Sun's 'Pay as You Drink' Service
Posted by: Dana Gardner 2007-05-30 09:26:20

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Before the end of the year, Sun Microsystems will follow the lead of Amazon and Microsoft in providing a "pay as you drink" applications hosting service that provides a lifecycle approach to new Web application development and deployment. In addition to announcing JavaFX Script, a lightweight programming language for creating rich online and mobile content, Sun software chief Rich Green said that Sun plans to leverage its grid and utility offerings -- priced on a per-use basis -- for swiftly building and deploying Web applications, services and mashups.

Re: Sun's 'Pay as You Drink' Service
Posted by: drew811 2007-05-30 09:31:21 In reply to: Dana Gardner

You wrote/asked: Why not OpenOffice.SaaS? If compilation of Java code as a service is impractical...
The compilation of Java code as a service is not impractical, in fact ThinkFree is currently using Java for our online office right now.