Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-09 Thread Martin Schröder
On 1999-12-08 08:29:04 -0800, Paolo Ciccone wrote: > It's called Borland JIT :). Seriously the latest JIT is included in the > Sun/Inprise JDK but you can use it with any other JDK 1.2 if you want. > At present time there are no plans to port the JIT to other architectures > than Intel. Can I us

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 07:44:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had a single communication with the VP of engineering at inprise, telling > me that they were interested in dedicated some resources to assist with the > port. I provided him with Steve Byrne's contact information and that was

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread karl
Paolo Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:55:25AM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > > > What I don't understand is: Why didn't Inprise ever contact or support (testing >and bugfixing) the > > Blackdown team in their porting effort, if they just wanted to have (and this >

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 07:14:11PM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > Paolo Ciccone writes: > > Paolo> On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:55:25AM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > >> What I don't understand is: Why didn't Inprise ever contact or > >> support (testing and bugfixing) the Blackd

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 07:52:02PM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 07:20:46PM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > No, sunwjit and javacomp are two different products. sunwjit is what > > we get from Sun (actually they bought this JIT from another company) > > as a binary. ja

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 06:54:44PM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:29:04AM -0800, Paolo Ciccone wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:55:25AM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > > > > > What I don't understand is: Why didn't Inprise ever contact or support (testing >and bugfixin

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > Jan Buchmann writes: > > Jan> On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:29:04AM -0800, Paolo Ciccone wrote: > >> It's called Borland JIT :). Seriously the latest JIT is > >> included in the Sun/Inprise JDK but you can use it with any > >> other JDK 1.2 if you wan

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Jan Buchmann writes: Jan> On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:29:04AM -0800, Paolo Ciccone wrote: >> It's called Borland JIT :). Seriously the latest JIT is >> included in the Sun/Inprise JDK but you can use it with any >> other JDK 1.2 if you want. At present time there are no plan

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Paolo Ciccone writes: Paolo> On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:55:25AM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: >> What I don't understand is: Why didn't Inprise ever contact or >> support (testing and bugfixing) the Blackdown team in their >> porting effort, if they just wanted to have (and thi

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Jan Buchmann
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:29:04AM -0800, Paolo Ciccone wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:55:25AM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > > > What I don't understand is: Why didn't Inprise ever contact or support (testing >and bugfixing) the > > Blackdown team in their porting effort, if they just wanted

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:55:25AM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > What I don't understand is: Why didn't Inprise ever contact or support (testing and >bugfixing) the > Blackdown team in their porting effort, if they just wanted to have (and this seems >to be the case) > a production quality JDK1.

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Christopher Harvey
Oh guys ! Wake up ! Hands up all those who believe that David and Goliath have the same goals and ethics. As my old Grandma used to say: He who expects to be treated by the same rules in life that he himself follows, is a damn fool. Many are directly comparing the guys at Blackdown with the _co

Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Jan Buchmann
Hello to all of you, I've read the most of the discussion about the blackdown-inprise issue and I'm really annoyed (even more i'm pissed off) about the way SUN treated the blackdown-team. Now I have some questions and most of them are to SUN-representatives on this list: What I don't understan