Hm.... But most credible explanation:
Re:Other Famous Version Number Skips (Score:5, Interesting)
by Kourino (206616) on Sunday July 04, @06:45PM (#9608903)
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Emacs.
Some time ago, the developers realized that GNU Emacs would probably never change its major version number (which is 1). So, after some point, instead of "GNU Emacs 1.x.y", they started dropping the 1 (since it was constant information and therefore redundant). So the current release of GNU Emacs is actually 1.21.3, but it's called "GNU Emacs 21.3".
This actually appears to be what Sun is doing now. They've done it before with Solaris/SunOS ... twice, in fact.
Version *strip* not skip. (Score:4, Informative)
by Turadg (13362)
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Exactly. This isn't a version number "skip"; it's a version number "strip".
The second digit becomes the first and the third the second. This is perfectly in line with accepted norms when you consider the improvements of 1.4.2 over 1.4.1. For minor increments, Sun had to resort to seriously odd numbers like 1.4.2_04.
Makes sense to me. The "2" in J2SE is unfortunate, but at this point the numericity of that character is dead. J2SE, J2EE and J2ME are just brands, not versions.
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