(I posted this yesterday, didn't come through). Wow, this is huge news http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20000124/tc/20000125062.html Here's the meat of it. This is amazing. Sun's really missed the boat with Java on Linux, and IBM has neatly hopped on it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Dec. 7, 1999, Sun announced plans to ship Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition for Linux in the first quarter. On Monday, IBM beat Sun to the punch with deals bringing Java to Caldera Systems, Red Hat and TurboLinux's Linux operating systems. Under these agreements, each of the three companies will license and distribute IBM's Java Runtime engine, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and the IBM Developer Kit for Linux, Java Technology Edition. All the companies intend on shipping product by mid-February. IBM launched Java as a public beta in June of last year. ... The wheeling and dealing isn't done yet. Sources close to IBM say IBM is likely to sign a Java deal with SuSE, the last of the four major Linux server distributors, shortly. [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . . http://www.media.mit.edu/~nelson/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
