The second annual BREW conference was a big success, by all observations. BREW seems like such a good idea, and like other QUALCOMM inventions, should help accellerate wireless growth. The company is faced with naysayers a plenty who would like to whip up the press and everybody else into some "Java vs. BREW" war or allege that BREW is some sort of nefarious plot by QUALCOMM to "Lock" people into ASICs. Strange.
Stewart Alsop gave a speech on the second morning that praised both Java "...will finally, as a client side operating system, find it's home on cell phones...it will be the platform of choice going forward". Later he stated that BREW would become another big hit for mobile phones. So, both can - as QUALCOMM showed, co-exist, on the same platform. The KDDI speaker who also spoke later added that "we don't want to lose the Java programmers" and wanted QUALCOMM to promote the standard at home and open the platform up. One final note, Jamdat (who won an award at the BREW conference) and other's will be able to have interactive games possible more readily when 1XRTT is completely deployed. The dormant mode operation will create "always on" pricing that carriers will be creating new pricing schemes for.