If Sun seemed vaguely anxious about Android before now - fearing its non-standard implementation of Java might fragment the language - then now they’re coming across as borderline belligerent.  Speaking at the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days conference last week, Sun vice-president James Gosling declined to cite his company’s position on Android, claiming Google was yet to define the platform’s business model.

“It’s impossible to have a position, right, because there is no data.  Over the last couple of years, Google’s been showing their phone at telecom conferences all over the world and with different business models, all of which really scared the carriers and handset makers. And then with Android, they put out a bag of code with no business model.  Unless the day comes when they say what they’re going to do with it, it’s just a bag of code sitting out there” James Gosling, VP, Sun

At the same conference, Sun announced that it would be open-sourcing the Squawk virtual machine used in their Java-compliant SunSPOT (Small Programmable Object Technology) platform, with further movement toward open-source later on; their hope is that developers will adapt the platform for devices other than cellphones.

Google is yet to comment on Gosling’s statement.