Funny.
While the rationale behind changing the historic SunW symbol to something more up to date, this besides recent announcements of Solaris running on IBM Hardware, too increases some behind the scene rumors and speculations, Sun may some day as a company be taken over by e.g. IBM ;-)

After many disputes in the past, Eclipse (where IBM still has a significant role despite many members) joining the JCP Community also is another, though not so large move into a future, where such speculation may become reality.

However, a strong brand like Java is likely to survive for quite a while, even if the company behind it should some day follow the fate of its former ticker symbol...

And Apple will next week change its trading symbol from APPL to IPOD :-)

Were Java to disappear this instant, all work done by it could be replaced using other existing technologies.