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What is the significance of this announcement to the industry?

This announcement takes open-source, compatible Java from a long-standing dream of developers worldwide, to concrete reality. With the open sourcing of the code base for one of the industry's most significant and pervasive software platforms, the groundwork has been established to foster adoption in new markets, to build broader communities, and fuel even more innovation. With over 5.4 billion Java technology enabled devices, Java technology has already demonstrated explosive growth, appearing in volume nearly everywhere. Now, as free software, the Java platform can address new markets and be the engine of innovation for the next generation of networked applications.