On 8/11/05, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one is an interesting one. Although there are lots of j2ee > compliant containers and servers, it's all, under the hood, Sun Java. > So you can pick whatever vendor you want, so long as it is Sun. > Obviously there are now finally VMs that can run Java bytecode that > aren't from Sun*, such as IBM, or even GCJ, and eventually we'll have a > full OSS system. At which point J2EE finally will fit this definition > of "enterprise-class" that you mention. I think that when most market- > speakers talk of this "vendor lock-in" thing, they are referring to > underlying hardware/OS platform. However it is definitely worth > remembering that the Java platform itself does is one vendor.
Not true in the slightest. IBM, BEA, obviously Sun are very viable JVM choices. Apache's Harmony project is building a high-quality OSS JVM/JDK with the help of IBM and Sun. There is no lock-in to Sun's JVM. Not to mention that Sun's JVM/JDK has always been 100% free (as in beer) and runs on Windows, Linux, and Solaris. There is absolutely no vendor lock-in with Java. -Bryan .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
