+1 that Oracle should / probably will do it. Microsoft don't do it, nor for that matter does Linus et al so let's not cry too much about Apple giving up on it.
In many ways its the best thing as Oracle are likely to maintain the platform in a more timely fashion, if for no other reason than to stay in with cool folks like me ;-) Sent from my MacBook Pro On Oct 21, 9:31 pm, "fabrizio\.giudi...@tidalwave\.it" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm usually an optimist, but I don't see any upside for Oracle in > > doing this. Unlike Apple, Oracle won't make any money if people buy > > Macs because Oracle provides a free Java JDK. On the other hand, if > > Java were really to die on Mac OS, developers and companies do not > > stop developing in Java, they stop using Apple hardware. So no > > negative effect on Oracle, and they've saved themselves the cost of > > creating a Mac OS Java port. > > > I'm not sure at all about what Oracle will do. But I see that Oracle does > support its products on Mac OS X (JDeveloper, NetBeans, Glassfish, just to > mention some). This means that they have at least a minimum business about > Mac OS X. Furthermore, they are exercising their stewardship in a very strong > fashion, and dropping Mac OS X support Java would lose the full portability > property. I say that there's no sure thing, but there are some rational > reasons for Oracle to support Mac OS X. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici, Ph.D. - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/blog > [email protected] - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 -- 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.
