> > 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. >
I wouldn't mind seening j2ee die a deserved death ;) However, I still don't quite see what IBM would get out of this. I suppose that they could try to create a proprietary standard and get everyone to migrate too it, but thats unlikely to work. If that was the case why havn't they done it with linux? or for that matter any of the many other open source projects that they have thier hand in. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Don Brady Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Juglist] Sun to open Java source for real? 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. _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and its attachments may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or privileged information which is legally protected from disclosure. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and appropriately delete the material from your computer. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
