First up was the state of the Java Desktop ecosystem, and there were some interesting statistics that came out of that.
* Did you know that 41% of Java technology developers spend their time working on Desktop applications and Applets, while 37% spend their time working on servlets and EJBs?
* Did you know that 63% of the respondents cited desktop enhancements when asked which Java SE 6 features appealed to them to most?
* Did you know that applications ranging from Yahoo Maps/Local for Europe all the way to real-time strategy games like Tribal Trouble use the Java Desktop APIs?
It gets better:
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87.5% of all PCs run Java technology, and over 65% of all Java technology-enabled PCs run the Java SE platform.
* Monthly Windows JRE downloads passed over 30 million in January 2006, and the curve is growing exponentially. So, with all this budding interest in the Java Desktop APIs, what's new with Mustang?
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