Do you know why IBM ported JDK1.1.6 instead of 1.1.8? I could understand
why they did not pick up 1.2, but 1.1.8 is very stable and capable of.
Jacob
Aravind Selvaraje wrote:
>
> 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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