>I was actually trying to make a reference to the fact that I have not
>yet seen a mention of Red Hat in our discussions of who should be
>driving Java on Linux. Why is that?
Or VA Linux? :-)
Sadly, I don't think many people at Red Hat care about Java. There's
this funny anti-Java sentiment in the Linux community, you see it a
lot on Slashdot. Part of it is free software purists vs. Sun licenses,
a position I can respect. Part of it is a bunch of people who like
hacking C code who aren't interested in friendly, slightly slower OO
languages.
But Red Hat is spending money left and right, developing a bunch of
different businesses at once. What's one more?
BTW, Red Hat recently acquired Cygnus, which has their own Java
environment. My feeling is that stuff is aimed more at the embedded
market, and we've yet to see what Red Hat will do with Cygnus'
embedded market.
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