At 09:44 AM 6/4/2004, Merritt, Eric wrote:
That makes no sense for IBM. Even if they did include parts of suns java in a proprietary implementation it would still conform to the java spec. Java just has to much mindshare for IBM to abandon.
It absolutely would conform to the spec. Plus extensions, especially in the J2EE area at first. I wasn't thinking so much of the language itself.
Technically thats true. However, they created a proprietary axis that they sell as part of websphere. It still complies with the soap specification and it doesn't even compete with axis in the FOSS arena. For that matter they did the same thing with tomcat and a couple of other projects. Non of these have hurt thier original projects at all, if anything they have brought in more users. This example does not support your above theory.
It goes only so far. It has been cited by others.
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