It’s about time and way too late to see Sun making Java more Linux-friendly after both:
The public relations nightmare Sun has caused for Java on Linux, partly amended for by IBM. Linux people will not touch Java unless it is for either Azureus or Eclipse.
Mono all but stole the shop at least on the GNOME desktop and is going on to be the most viable platform for cross-platform GUI applications on both Linux, Windows and Mac (using native Winforms ports).
