How can I help?

1999-08-02 Thread Mike Christiansen
I have wanted to contribute to Linux for a while now. I would most like to help make my favorite programming language successful on my favorite OS. What can I do? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-16 Thread Mike Christiansen
I too am very concerned with this issue and don't know what to say. My hat goes off for Blackdown. But even if the Blackdown effort produced a working, native thread VM tomorrow, would it support a JIT, much less HotSpot? Performance is really bad and pure Java tools like NetBeans and TogetherJ do

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-16 Thread Mike Christiansen
Riyad Kalla wrote: > These are good points.. and I think the reason Sun doesn't support Linux so readily > is simply because it would be shooting its self right in the Solaris-Foot. If it > provides a high performance, solaris quality Java implementation... they may loose > a bit of business. I d

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-17 Thread Mike Christiansen
I see two points: 1. Having felt frustrated for some time with the lack of visible progress, I posted a message asking how I could help. No response. 2. There was a comment in an earlier message that a commercial product was not a good idea. I don't see why. Clearly, from the apparent difficulty

Re: Free MSSQL JDBC driver

2000-01-23 Thread Mike Christiansen
- www.freetds.org Its free but I don't know how good it is... - www.inetsoftware.de/English/produkte/JDBC2/Default.htm I'm using this one. Its not free, but the demo supports a limited number of connections. Mike Marek Gmyrek wrote: > > Hi, > > is there any free JDBC driver for MS SQL Ser

Re: AW: AW: C# -- the Java killer?

2000-06-29 Thread Mike Christiansen
I'm not so sure. MS SOAP is incompatible with all other implementations including IBM's (Java-based) version. Below is a link to an interesting article that was forwarded to me that compared the two. IBM's version stood head and shoulders above MS. The conclusion was to use MS's version if one was