Nathan Meyers wrote:
>
> Justin Knotzke wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I see that IBM is porting Websphere to Linux. Are they going to use
> > your VM? If not, do you think they are going to port their VM to Linux?
>
> A look at their site doesn't suggest the existence of a "their VM",
> other than a port of Sun's code to their platforms. Unless they want to
> duplicate Blackdown's efforts, I can't imagine that they'd want to do
> their own port to Linux.
>
> Nathan
>
Umm, this is not quite true. Yes, IBM is a licensor of Sun's
code. Yes, their other platforms are "ports" of Sun VMs.
However, IBM has spent a very large amount of effort in
customizing, adapting and tuning Sun VMs to the 390, the
AS/400 and the RS6000 environments. They're interested
in making IBM servers the "servers of choice" for scalable
server-oriented Java efforts. Having spent some time with
people working on AS/400 and 390 VM groups within IBM, I
can tell you there's a lot more going on than just trying to
recompile Sun's code onto these targets. In particular,
they've spent a lot of effort on garbage collection
and mem.mgmt in the VMs.
Now, none of that has any bearing on the original question
of course, ie - would they use blackdown as their point
of departure for Linux-based Java efforts. My own guess,
like Nathan's, is that they would. After all, why on
earth not?? It is the "official" Linux JDK. (What is the
status of the Open Group Java/Linux effort? Is that still
going on?)
BTW - similar comments apply to Oracle. They've embedded
a VM, again based on Sun code, into O8i. They're now
releasing O8i onto Linux. My guess is that they would
do some kind of merge of their own efforts with blackdown.
[Hey - 3 cheers for the Java 2 SDK release :).
Thanks Steve and others. ]
Ron
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