Quoting Orlando Andico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> That's not exactly right. Come, now.  :)
> Tomcat runs just as well on Windows and Unix.

Note:  It has to be debugged in duplicate, for each release.

However, by far the bigger portability problems involve codebases that
include UI support.  Network daemons and middleware pose fewer problems
in that area, inherently.

> But I think Java gets the farthest in lip service to binary
> portability.  :P

Python scripts give it more than a run for its money, although they're
not "binary".

I used to find it confusing that Java proponents considered it an
_advantage_ to be able to hand out only bytecode, and considered this
somehow to make it inherently superior to Python, Java, and Ruby.  But
then, I remembered that practically all of them are proprietary software
people, such that obscuring source code isn't just a side-effect of
compilation, but actually a business objective.

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