Sun ships it’s 100,000,000th JavaFX runtime

Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has announced that Sun has just shipped it’s 100,000,000th copy of the JavaFX runtime. This also coincides with the launch of the JavaFX Mobile platform.

Jonathan also gave some insights in what’s coming up in the marketplace? He mentioned the continued growth in the open source software and the growth of JavaFX usage in devices. You can read more about Jonathan’s article here.

Sun has really been investing heavily in open source. Sun’s recent purchase of MySQL has put into Sun’s hand some pretty valuable open source projects like NetBeans, Java, VirtualBox and MySQL. These acquisitions have placed Sun in a position of slowly building it’s portfolio of software needed in the Enterprise.