How about , we all lobby hard Apple to licence Java3D and JAI (Java Advanced
Imaging).
I believe that Apple is loosing big time in the Science market. I am
subscribed to JAI newsgroup,
and there has been disappointment with both Apple and Sun for not settling
the licensing issue
sooner. Computational Biology, is becoming big at the moment , and life
sciences are all rushing to
develop 3D visualization for the Bioinformatic. I believe that Apple, needs
to license Java3D . Look
at the CAVE project , visualization is important for industries and or
companies that have different
platform in different departments. I have also seen people from NASA, in
this newsgroup screaming
for Java3D on Mac. I have used VisAD (Java3D Visualization package in Java)
for some development,
and sometimes scientists frequently asked questions to the mailing list if
they can deploy applications
in Mac using VisAD, the answer from Bill Hibbard (VisAD architect) is NO.
Lets also lobby Sun, because this licensing issue, as I believe is not
solely Apple's fault. Sun has to
be blame for probably trying to charge too much for Java3D to be licensed by
Apple.
I hope , that we can also agree on this.
Cheers,
Sione.
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 23:08:15 -0600
> From: Bryan Jones <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Apple lays of SciTech marketing manager
> To: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
> Cc: email@hidden
>
> There have actually been a number of lay-offs in the science and
> technology markets at Apple over the last year or so. I can only hope
> that Apple is not losing focus of the science markets as I have seen a
> bit of traction for OS X recently from entrenched Wintel users and
> developers I've been talking with. The CTO of one company I've been
> speaking with is actually pretty excited and is working on getting the
> message out to their board of directors who hopefully will look at
> bringing some of their *NIX code back to the platform by working with
> X11.
>
> Additionally, rather than simple marketing to science users and science
> developers, I've long thought that Apple could really gain a lot of
> focus in the science market by identifying a couple of applications
> that are crucial to a number of areas in science and using open source
> code already out there to improve upon them with an OS X only solution
> that would make the Mac (particularly an OS X Mac) a necessity. My
> bias is bioscience, but I am thinking of an application something like,
> say, ImageJ that a whole bunch of disciplines use. In fact, scientific
> imaging is a potential strong point for Apple as they have a long
> history in imaging and massive outlays in R&D in imaging as well as a
> number of technologies that could be leveraged. Don't forget, Apple
> was one of the first companies to create a digital camera for the
> consumer with the Quicktake, and with other products in their pocket
> such as Firewire, Quicktime, Altivec, Colorsync, Quartz and Quartz
> extreme, Inkwell etc... they could have a serious contender in this
> market that could reflect in sales to bioscience, earth science,
> forensics, etc...etc...etc... An argument could even be made that a
> relationship between Apple and Pixar (yes, Pixar, if that could ever
> happen) that could result in some serious benefits to the science
> community through some relatively inexpensive investments in imaging,
> cluster computing and databases that might also benefit Pixar. Ah, the
> good old days of the 90's where "skunkworks" labs at tech companies
> were more common. With a little focus and direction, really cool stuff
> emerges from collaborations such as that.
>
>
> Bryan
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