Ars Technica is covering the news that Sun Microsystems has signed up to become a Microsoft Windows OEM. I don’t know how to take this except for ‘Wha..?’.

Filing this one under the ‘oh bother’ category, Sun’s Johnathan Schwartz announced yesterday that Sun Microsystems is changing their trading symbol from ‘SUNW’ to ‘JAVA’, because Sun hasn’t bastardized the name enough yet. Here are some quotes:

Sun is blessed to have built two of the best known brands on the internet. The Java brand, and OpenOffice (and its cousin, StarOffice).

Ahh yes, another year, and another huge conference with seemingly huge announcements. JavaOne is back, and already Sun is announcing their way into the hearts of managers and stockholders everywhere.

The first announcement out of the gates was Java FX (see here and here). I’d link to the homepage of Java FX, but, there isn’t one.