According to the following:
http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/other/portingplans.html
IBM's GA date for JDK1.2 on AIX isn't until December 1999.
Rob
Oliver Fels wrote:
> At Thu, 08 Jul 1999 Peter Pilgrim wrote:
> >It is been well over 6 months since we have seen Java 2.
> >It has been available for Solaris and Windows (NT) since the launch,
> >but linux is faltering still not released yet. I presume this is
> >the status for other platforms like hp-unix, aix, apple etc.
>
> AFAIK, IBM has a JAVA2 beta for AIX and I'll bet the final will be out soon.
> Apple is still recovering from Microsoft dropping support for MRJ, so they had
> terrible problems in delivering a stable 1.1 release.
> According to some Apple guy I talked to at JavaONE, Apple still concentrates
> finishing 1.1 support and will start Java2 support later on.
>
> >I am wondering if Sun has overstretch itself in trying to develop so
> >many APIs? It seems to me that they are struggling and there is enough
> >support and help to help outsiders (like Blackdown who done an excellent
> >job porting the software)?
> IMHO the JDK has reached a stage in which it wont be extended a lot more.
> SUN is now concentrating on the enterprise and embedded versions, so it is
> easier for porters to keep track.
> SUN is no charity organisation, so they are still looking how to get some bucks
> out of the technology. They won't help eg IBM or HP or even Apple finishing
> their JRE, as those directly compete with SUN in the Server market.
> It would be a consequent step if they started charging the enterprise edition
> (though it is not propable).
> Delivering a complete solution makes it also difficult for other technologies
> to keep track (eg. Microsofts COOL technology) and gives more reasons using
> JAVA instead of some other architectures.
>
> I don't think they will continue spitting out so many different new APIs and
> concentrate on finishing and supporting the existent ones.
>
> Oliver
>
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