Great news about Sun's release. Anyone know more about its
disposition? Was it done inside Sun, or by Inprise, or Blackdown
people?
>I'm not sure that this is a good thing; who will us mere programmers
>determine which sdk is more stable and faster under linux?
The marketplace will decide that soon enough. We're pretty good at
figuring out what software works.
>Now we get to play switch between IBM and Sun to see which is faster
>& more stable every time we have a problem. Too bad they just don't
>get together on this and collaborate. Imagine how much better it
>could be then!
Oh, it could be great, but it's not going to happen. Corporations like
IBM and Sun just don't cooperate well, especially with the brewing
battle over Java between them. But we can benefit in the Linux
community if we're part of the battleground.
What would be *really* great is if there were an open source Java
implementation that we could all contribute to and avoid all these
politics. My impression is the Java design is stable enough that this
is reasonable to do, but that it's a lot of work to implement.
What ever happened to Japhar? They were doing great, then stopped in
mid-March last year.
GNU classpath is still going strong. No VM, but a class library is
valuable.
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