Sun Microsystems Inc. said attendance jumped to 14,000 at last week's JavaOne conference - an increase of 2,000 over last year's event and a sign that interest in the language and development platform Sun created nine years ago remains high.
Yet Sun continues to struggle in the commercial tools market, despite its cachet as the inventor of Java. Analysts place Sun among the bottom dwellers in the commercial Java tools market, estimating that it commands less than 10% of a market led by Borland Software Corp. and IBM
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