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JavaOne Keynote: Neil Young Likes Java
5/7/2008
Green also talked about the increasingly significant role of consumers as drivers of technology changes that eventually make their way into the enterprise. "Businesses used to drive the technology adoption," he said, "but today it's all about consumers. Information is crossing the moat, escaping the [enterprise] castle."
Sun claims that Java technology is the most widely adopted runtime in the world, currently running on billions of devices.
Conference attendees lined up down the street in the early morning cold and fog to catch the conference-opening keynote. Conference organizers expected 15,000 to attend this year's conference.
John K. Waters is a freelance journalist and author based in Palo Alto, CA.
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