Jim Frost wrote:
>
> > Maybe because NT is notorious for being very unfriendly to Java?
>
> Huh? NT is one of the best Java platforms around. It's relatively stable, has
> great JVM availability, has very stable JVMs, has a slew of IDEs and other
> tools, has several very fast compilers....
>
> We do almost all development on NT for these reasons even though we typically
> deploy on Solaris (for scalability and core OS reliability).
>
Pardon me, but...
WRONG!
It's been proven in court that Microsoft's JVM is utterly
*non-compliant*, NT crashes way too frequently to be considered *alpha*
quality software, Microsoft's IDE produces binaries that simply will not
run on any platform except Win32 (again, proven in court)...
"NT is one of the best Java platforms around" ? What have you been
smoking?
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Jeff Galyan
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jeffrey dot galyan at sun dot com
talisman at anamorphic dot com
Sun Certified Java(TM) Programmer
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