Agreed.
Currently, IBM spends more money on Java and Java related products than Sun.
With their EJB marketing they are promoting the fact that you can develop
beans on your laptop, test them and when ready to scale drop them on to a
mid range AIX or AS/400 box or if you want huge grunt, put them on a OS/390.
The return of the mainframe !!!!
Of course, you need to look no farther than their support for Linux and Java
so that they can't be blackmailed by M$ for their dev platforms.
-- Aravind
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Forsythe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 20 August 1999 15:32
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: IBM's Java/Linux agenda
>
>
> > And who thinks that the big heads at IBM have other reasons for
> supporting
> > java [than] ... java hurts M$.
>
> I don't work for IBM, but here is my best guess at a better reason for
> them to support Java: the "write once run anywhere" promise.
>
> Consider all of the systems that IBM *currently* ships: AIX, OS/390,
> OS/400, OS/2, and now (drum roll please) Linux. Not only that, but IBM
> also makes sure that its systems integrate with Windows.
>
> Maybe they support Linux just to piss of Microsoft, but Java is "the
> Cobol of the 21st Century"* for IBM. For this reason, IBM has taken
> control of its own Java destiny and is producing the best JVMs around.
>
> -Charles
> * Rough quote from "Java and the AS/400" (and IBM white paper). BTW,
> IBM's new Java support for the AS/400 is really cool; it's NOT a JVM.
>
>
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