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Java Everywhere!: Where's Java nowadays?

Well, it pretty much runs everywhere, and it's the most deployed platform around the world today, in more than 2.5 BILLION devices!

Java powers the SIM card in your mobile phone.

Java powers the national health cards of several countries, serving several hundred million people, as well as the security cards of the US army and others, and credit cards like AMEX Blue.

Java powers the games and serves the ringtones of your mobile devices.

Big Java powers the business of more than 90% of the financial institutions in the world and the businesses of web powerhouses like eBay and Google.

Java is the #1 used platform in SourceForge.

Desktop Java apps include Azureus (the overall winner of the SourceForge Community Awards), Limewire, QNext, Eclipse, netbeans, etc.

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1151

Java even helped control the Mars Rover as it explored out of this world terrain.

http://www.java.com/en/everywhere/marsrover.jsp

It's in car computers and set-top boxes, and will even be in the next generation Blu-ray DVD players , providing the interactivity layer for the system.

http://www.rimlife.com/bluray/

And Java keeps getting smaller, into the world of Small Programmable Objects:

http://sunspotworld.com/

And into RFID's and wireless sensor networks:

http://sun.java.net/rfid-sensors/

Java is Everywhere.

http://www.java.com/
http://www.java.net/
http://java.sun.com/
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