Office 2010 Pro Project Indiana Could Sun outshin

At its JavaOne conference,Office 2010 Professional, which kicks off in San Francisco on Could eight,Office 2010 Pro, Sun is promising a significant technologies unveiling, code-named "Project Indiana." My ZDNet blogging colleage Ed Burnette is speculating that Sun may unveil a head-to-head competitor to Microsoft's Silverlight, a k a "Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere." Sun still isn't talking. But its execs are dropping hints all over. And it sounds like at least part of Sun's announcement could involve a deal with Adobe, via which Sun will be distributing the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) as part of Adobe Flash. This could shape up to be an interesting battle: Silverlight becomes Microsoft's way to seed its Common Language Runtime (the heart of the .Net Framework) across multiple platforms — starting with non-Microsoft browsers like Firefox and Safari on Windows, Mac OS X and probably other platforms. And (possibly) Flash becomes Sun's way to distribute Java across multiple platforms,Windows 7 32bit, including Solaris and Linux. The big difference, of course, is Flash already owns the rich-content plug-in space; Silverlight is the up-and-commer. At the CommunityOne keynote kick-off on Could possibly 7, Rich Green, Sun's Executive Vice President of Software,Office 2010 Home And Business, when responding to a user question as to why Flash isn't using Java,Microsoft Office 2010 Pro Plus, looked at his watch and said Sun would have more to say "in about 23 hours." Green and other Sun execs also hinted that Sun is just as attuned to the need to make Java the VM more accessible to other (non-Java) language developers. Does that mean Sun also has an equivalent to Microsoft's recently announced Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) environment? I wouldn't be surprised…. Sun's also using the same lingo as Microsoft, in terms of wanting to target not just traditional developers, but also content designers, with its tools. Is there a Sun equivalent of Microsoft Expression waiting in the wings, as nicely? Guess we'll hear more tomorrow. In the meantime, anyone care to speculat on Indiana and other potential Sun JavaOne announcements in the pipeline?