On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:00:20 Gunnar Stahl wrote:
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>maybe in the desktop area. And they knew that it was very usefull to create the
>thought and feeling of a "java community". But the big heads at solaris
>suddenly noticed that linux is becoming more and more stronger and that they
>have to take care of it. And taking care of it means dropping their support for
>linux while claiming to support it. Means stop developing java for linux. That
>is the only way they can hurt linux. (Maybe the resign <snip>
I don't think SUN itself is hostile to Linux. I think Java is the outcome of an
idealistic view shared by some (and a funding company with commercial interests), the
both of which clashed as always.
Now Blackdown care about Linux, otherwise they wanted to get paid for this
hercules-job they're doing.
Blackdown do not respond to market stress (as far as I'm told, and they got some stuff
to fix), and this is just, because they're not commercial.
So the company wants to cash in short term and forgets about the long-term cash flow
called Linux by not entering the Linux arena. This is Sun's prime mistake. Now IBM
will grab their pretzels and eat 'em!
HAH WILLIE!
IBM's got powerful Net stuff on their OS/390 platform already. Soon as they port
Linux, they'll port OS/390. They from that point in time have -
1. strongest on mid-range servers (linux)
2. strongest on JAVA and NET connection (Linux, AIX, and OS/39)
and of course already serice the most part of coorperate data in the world on their
MVS databases.
This is the world according to I.
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