Google Android first real "customer" for Apache Harmony

I was gonna blog about this topic from scratch, but this post by my Apache colleague, Stefano Mazzocchi, does a good job of explaining how Android makes use of the Apache Harmony class libraries with a new, Open Source VM called Dalvik.

Given Sun's continuing refusal to actually address Geir Magnussen's Open Letter concerning TCK licensing with anything other than marketeering, this is both a brave and perhaps a brash thing for Google to have done...and I for one can't wait to see how or if Sun responds.

You might think their response will be swift, but sometimes Sun has a "Bambi in the Headlights" reaction to game changing moves in the marketplace (witness the many months that lapsed between IBM's first announcement of Eclipse in November 2001 and Sun's eventual response).