On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 02:43:47PM -0500, Mike Ajemian wrote:
> to our postings" crap). The community will suffer as 2 products that
> should be on the same code base are now completely separate products
> (which Inprise likely wants since it doesn't dilute their product with
> an Inprise-Blackdown label.)
Sorry to disappoint your "conspiracy" theory, I really mean it in a
good way, but we really don't care who provides the JDK. If Blackdown
tomorrow shows a JDK that outperform ours we will be happy like hell,
it will make JBuilder and JDataStore run faster. Great ! Same thing if
it comes from Sun or IBM.
As anybody can immagine having to port the JDK is a big PITA
especially since we had to do that while working on other two projects
(JBuilder Solaris and JBuilder Foundation). We literally spent the
nights in the Borland Campus.
> Bottom line is Inprise wants presence in the linux community and Sun
> wants a greater Java presence. I don't think they're going after the
> current linux base, they're going after the converts to linux (a large
> number that's growing fast) who aren't going to be familiar with or
> even care about this issue.
Wrong again, we believe we have something that can improve the
experience of the developers on Linux and on other platforms as well.
The thing that is funny for me is that you, and other people on this
list, refer to who works in Inprise or other companies like we are not
part of the Linux community. I still have the Slackware 0.99 disks and
the same is for many of us in the Borland campus. Linux is exciting
for us and we have people that rooted for it for years, me being one
of them. Sure we work for a commercial company, does it make us
"bad". I don't think so, let us contribute to this community, we are
doing our best and you'll judge if it's worth your attention and money
or not. In the case of JBuilder Foundation, as you ca see, we are
giving it away for free.
--
Paolo Ciccone
JBuilder dev.team
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