As per Sun Website
J2SE 1.4.2 has begun the Sun End of Life (EOL) process. The EOL transition period is from Dec, 11 2006, until the General Availability (GA) of the next Java version, Java SE 7, currently planned for the summer of 2008. With this notice, customers are strongly encouraged to migrate to the current release, Java SE 6.
What this would mean for the enterprises is a large investment in IT budget for the next year. Java SE 6 is not widely supported by many third party software that many enterprises use. So what they would end up doing in many cases is upgrade to Java SE 5. That has a mode widespread support. This in turn would lead to another upgrade in maybe 2 years from now when Java SE 5 EOL process starts. There are major changes in the JEE/J2EE architechure and implementations when upgrading to Java SE6. You will also need to upgrade App servers, Operating Systems and a lot more supporting infrastructure like Messaging Services etc to complete this upgrade.
I would call this the next y2k for off shoring businesses
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