From: Nelson Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Another question for the mix - what's up now with the production
>version of the JDK? Is there any hope of a Linux port of that? I hear
>rumours that it is quite good.
The plus in the Production version is platform-specific tuning, so this
cannot be ported! Over time, I hope the Linux code will receive lots of
Linux-specific tuning, especially after the sources are made available.
>I don't expect Sun to give out HotSpot. I just want them to make a
>commercial version for Linux as well, and release it at the same time
>as the Windows version.
That would make sense. There are other people making money on this niche --
providing high-performance Java on Linux -- like Tower.
>>I also read an article where the say that SUN was the last major
>>company to endorse Linux I guess that they are scare of Linux and
>>want to protect their beloved Solaris.
>That's the politics of which I want to understand more. Personally, I
>can't imagine anyone inside Sun thinking Solaris x86 is a viable long
>term product. Is that accurate? And what's going on now with the SCSL?
>Sun isn't just licensing the JDK under SCSL, it's licensing Solaris,
>even the Sparc chip design. That's pretty amazing. Is this new
>semi-open source movement in competition with Linux? Spiritual
>cooperation? Unrelated?
Everybody is scared and clueless about OSS. Look at the also recent Apple's
initiative with their Darwin open kernel, or IBM's jikes... I guess they are
probing the open source universe with increasingly braver moves, to check
how it works and if they can survive on it.
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