> Wasn't the design philosophy behind Java, "Write once, run anywhere"? > What went wrong?
Microsoft and Sun/Oracle producing incompatible "embrace and extend" packages that were shipped with the Sun or MS Java package, so people assumed they were part of the standard language. MS Java wasn't a fully compliant Java either. In the fireball demise of Sun, they (Oracle) didn't engage with the Java community, and frankly don't care much about anything that isn't Intel or SPARC. Their privilege, but it dramatically limits the utility of Java. I hate to say it, but Microsoft did a far better job for cross-platform with .NET. The Mono project supporting non-Intel, non-Windows architectures does a really decent job with applications that don't call native Windows services every 5 seconds. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
