The ambitious Sun Java Desktop System project

Sun Java Desktop System is a software package that provides a client environment based
on open-source software such as Mozilla and on industry standards. It’s essentially a layer on top of Linux. JDS includes StarOffice 7.0, Mozilla 1.4, GNOME 2.2 Desktop and Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 1.4.2, among other things.

Sun’s official developer site published an interview with Peder Ulander,
marketing director of Sun’s Desktop Solutions team, about Sun Java Desktop System.

Sun Java Desktop System is certainly ambitious, but the desktop market is already set up
in a way that will make it hard for another player to break in. There’s also the question
of who it’s for. I’m afraid Sun’s vision of getting developers
to adopt JDS is rather utopian.