On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 03:30:23PM -0700, Nathan Meyers wrote:
> Christopher Smith wrote:
> > Ooops. Sorry for being confusing. I mean that MS has treated
> > Transvirtual quite nicely while Sun appears to have shunned
> > Transvirtual.
>
> Interesting observation. I'm not sure I'd expect or want Sun to treat
> Transvirtual with anything more than benign neglect. Microsoft, for a small
> investment, gained the ability to claim some cross-platform capabilities for its
> extensions. If you're more interested in doing real work than arguing industry
> politics, that's a pretty nice win all around.
>
> If Transvirtual's work posed a business threat to Sun's JDK licensing or Unix
> platform business, I'm sure it would get much more attention from Sun - but not
> the sort of attention it would want.
This is exactly my frustration with where we are today in the Java
world. Sun controls the standard, but they act as though it's not in
their best interests for there to be independant implementations of
the standard. Net result: it is VERY difficult to comply to the Java
standard without Sun's help. Indeed, the Transvirtual guys have not
been allowed access to the certification suite. IS this in the best
interest of Sun? Perhaps. Is it in the best interest of Java
developers? I don't think os.
--Chris
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