I personally must say that I am the most happy person since blackdowns RC2
came out recently. It works absolutely stable, without problems (yes, I've
solved the Zapd-Dingbats-hit-me-dead-problem). Very good work, very stable.
Today Sun anounced with Inprise the release of Java2 RC1 for linux. Not
mentioning neither blackdown nor their efforts to give java to the
linux-community. Great. After months and months and months and months of
waiting for sun to finally start working on a reliable java2 for linux they
finally got it running. Running????. No SMP, no native threads a.s.o.. When
did sun say that they are going to support the linux-platform?!?
The question I have is very simple. On windows, Jdk 1.2 is out for a year,
jdk1.3 is almost done. Hotspot is done. Sound and 3d is done. Why does it
take a multi billion $-company like sun so long to fulfill their promise of
"write once, run everywhere"?? Why does it need a couple of open-source-guys
to port java to the linux-platform? Sun is a multi-billion-dollar-company!
Don't they have enough developers to do this? And why do they put their
money into a M$-addicted company like inprise instead of using it to support
the blackdown-team?
>From my point of view I will use the blackdown port as long as blackdown
exists. They seem to be much more trustworthy and reliable.
Keep on the good work, don't let yourself be demotivated by such a
commercial sh... .
Greetings
Gunnar
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