I don't get this. Who isn't already bundling Sun's JVM??
In the past year, we've gotten various models of new PCs from Dell, Compaq, HP, and Toshiba. Every single one of them showed up with Sun's JVM pre-installed in Windows. We don't buy IBM, but given how cozy IBM is with Sun's Java, I can't imagine that IBM wouldn't be pre-loading it already.
Fujitsu? Winbook? Whoever Sun is talking about, I can't imagine they are going to make a difference at this point. If Sun had been smart, they would have bought Niko Mak (producers of WinZip). Sun's attorney fees for one month would have been enough to hop a ride on WinZip. In fact, they could even claim that WinZip users voluntarily installed the JVM by clicking on "I Agree" (which 99% of WinZip users do daily, without stopping to think, because they're using their shareware past the eval period).
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