Last year, Java market is 25 billions US$ a year, and this year Java (OpenJDK) is 100% OpenSource.
This news will make any emerging country like the country that i stay can benefit from this technology, amazing value US$ 25 billions market, imagine if we can get 0.0001% for a country which the minimum sallary is us$ 100 (in Jakarta our main city) or US$ 50 for Mid Java.
So, we know the rate of Javaman (the real Java people in Java island is around) US$ 50, equals with 1 license of any mobile Java application.
If we track more deeper, Java value in NASDAQ is US$ 12 (Sun Microsystem), but we we drill down more deeply. JAVA is only the core, the 99% value on Java is in the market, that will value Oracle (Fusion), IBM (Websphere, Tivoli, Lotus), HP (OpenView), and thousand OpenSource products in SF.net. This is not include the Google Android and Nokia positioning in the market. Amazing big, isnt it?
I did a hot discussion with my friend, M. V. Yank, which we can see that Java is the core of innovation, most of Java people, is developer, a guy that develop application, not a user. we never call a people use Java mobile apps, people that use Linkedln is Java user. Java man will dead if Java gone, and Harley Davidson user can use another motorcycle.
This is different with one of the "Living Brand" in most of Brand building book, called Harley Davidson, one of the most publicy product.
So, we must glad that we will (Javaman) become the next "Living Brand", of course linux also will become another living brand esp after Linux become market leader in their category, which right now Windows is the market leader in Desktop, and in server side, Solaris is the most trusted Operating System.
There are a lot of Anti-America here, becase they way of US do a press release esp to Muslim country, like Indonesia.
but like it or not Java is one of American product, that hot.
I am waiting a book that compare Harley Davidson with Java.
Will David AAkers, Micheal Schimdt, or Philips Kottler read my blog?
If you go to Yahoo Finance, the HOG (Harley Davidson) market caps is around 9.52B, this is equals to Bea price when Oracle acquired it.
