> Compatibility wise, could I substitute IBM JVM? Depends on how well written your Java apps are. If they stick fairly close to the published specs, it shouldn't be a problem. If they broke the rules and call some of the Sun-specific stuff in the Sun/Oracle package, Bad Things Happen. IBM does take bug reports on it, and usually can find a way to support specific kinds of stupidity from applications, but there are a few commercial software companies out there that need to take a few programmers out behind the woodshed.
Also, if it's needed to support a commercial app, they may not have tested with the IBM JDK, and thus refuse to support you. Most of the commercial apps that use Java heavily have never even heard of the IBM JVM/SDK, let alone tested it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
