They just took their stable AIX port and modified to Linux. The JIT code
comes from their Intel Win32 platform.
Time to market (release) was the esence.
-- Aravind
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacob Nikom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 23 August 1999 17:42
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: IBM's Java/Linux agenda: why JDK1.1.6 port?
>
>
> 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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