On Wednesday 29 Sep 2004 14:15 pm, Vince Bonfanti wrote:
> (Sun and IBM) have their primary technical expertise on Linux/UNIX.

This need not be the case.
It's another exmaple of why wedding yourself to Windows is bad (for those who
don't know, MS used to do a JVM. Only they refused to stick to the standards,
and got rather told off about it, so went out and wrote their own 'Java
killer', .Net).

> Again, my point is consistent--the trade-off is between portability and
> performance. By choosing portability, you've sacrificed performance.

I'd argue it's better to have portability, performance is cheap to fix.

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