Ron Resnick wrote:
>
> Nathan Meyers wrote:
>
> 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?)
IBM did not use Sun or Microsoft's VM for NT based applications. Do you
think a corporation like IBM would want to trust it's Application Server
on Blackdown? I of course think they could and have ever confidence in
Blackdown but I am not IBM and I can't see how they would. They didn't
for NT based stuff. But then again, they do ship Apache with Websphere
so maybe their attitudes have really changed. I suspect that BEA has not
ported Weblogic to Linux because of it's reluctance to use Blackdown's
VM.
>
> 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.
>
Again I dunno. This is hard to say. They did not do this with NT based
apps. They went and created their own VM (alebit a much worse one).
I guess we will have to wait and see.
Justin.
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