Java everywhere — 1.5 billion devices running Java

It sounds almost unbelievable. According to an official report 
 from Sun there are 1.5 billion devices running Java in the world. Java has lived up to its slogan and really is everywhere. The table below
 lists the device categories with the largest deployments, in millions.

Count Device 650 desktop computers 500 SIM and smart cards 250 mobile phones 100 other devices

Beyond the familiar devices, Java is deployed in virtually every field
 and on all sorts of equipment. According to Sun, Java had grown by 25% since June 2002 and could 
 boast, for example, that NASA’s Mars Rover research robot used it.

Sun attributes Java’s success to three factors:

• Security in every sense
• The ability to run anywhere and anytime
• More than three million developers using the Java platform

In my view, Java has a huge advantage and great potential for deployment
 on mobile devices such as mobile phones, where it has already
 established itself firmly. As that segment grows, we can expect 
 it to spread more widely still.

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