I'm not sure it is good for Java either. IBM has a 2-tier approach to open source. All their products are closed source and where these are based on open source they keep the improvements closed wherever allowed by the license. Thus they've been moving their Java implementation to Harmony so they can leverage what others have done while keeping their improvements closed. This hurts the underlying open source projects and makes their products hard to troubleshoot.
When compared with Sun's JVM where you can get the full source code, the contrast is stark. Also IBM lags way behind most everyone else in implementing and supporting new Java versions (and new J2EE versions and so on). It is thus hard to see them pushing Java's evolution anywhere nearly as fast as Sun does -- despite all the stones thrown at Sun in this category. -- Jess Holle Steven Herod wrote: > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735970806267921.html > > Personally, it's probably good for 'Java', bad for everything else you > might like about the Sun software and hardware ecosystem. > > AIX v. Solaris > Power vs Sparc > Lotus Symphony vs OpenOffice > Websphere vs Glassfish > Eclipse vs Netbeans > DB2 vs MySQL > > and so on.... > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
