Hello,
I would have to agree with Mike about a commercial port (we need one, or at least
a commercially back port). I'm not sure that we should have to pay for it though
(although I know my boss would). I think is very hard to convince people they
should develop Java technologies for free (when folks are making so much money at
it). Java is having the "drinking from a fire hose" problem.
Here's a question, Has IBM (and/or Blackdown) interacted at all? I have only heard
mention that it exists (the IBM JVM). Since it is clear that Sun is not solving
the linux JDK problems is there hope that IBM and Blackdown can join forces (ala
Apache project)? IBM has announced they are officially release a Linux JVM (1.1
based by years end and no word about 1.2 (see next note)).
We must also realize that Sun's platform 2 is barely out of reference release
(IBM isn't planning a production release of platform 2 until next year. I guess
there were some major bugs between 1.2.0 and 1.2.2, so IBM did not start porting
till 1.2.2 address the problems).
My $0.02....
Cheers Tod Matola....
Mike Christiansen wrote:
> I see two points:
>
> 1. Having felt frustrated for some time with the lack of visible progress, I
> posted a message asking how I could help. No response.
>
> 2. There was a comment in an earlier message that a commercial product was not a
> good idea. I don't see why. Clearly, from the apparent difficulty Blackdown is
> having in producing a port, this is a nontrivial problem. Perhaps we need two
> types of releases: Free ports which are slow and (possibly) buggy. This will be
> fine for the person who wants to learn or fool around with Java. 2. Commercial
> releases which provide the features needed in a production environment. I have
> no problem paying for something which I, or my clients, are going to make money
> from. But as someone else pointed out, given the current situation, it would be
> impossible for me to recommend Linux as a Java platform. Solaris, or NT on the
> low end, are my only choices.
>
> Thanks for your time.
> Mike
>
> Riyad Kalla wrote:
>
> > This is how I personally feel and would urge anyone in the
> > same boat to help row, errr... to support this.
> >
> > I would like some indication FROM Blackdown for the
> > following things just so I'm not so in the dark:
> > - The current status of the 1.2 JDK
> > - If they are pleased with its progress
> > - If the desire to do it is still there
> > - What they need from US to help out
> > - What the future looks like.
>
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