Re: Oracle/Sun and the JVM

2010-01-29 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Stepan Koltsov wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 13:15, Francis ANDRE > wrote: >> >> So may be Oracle will allow/understand the necessity to have packed/zoned >> decimal as first class data type like integers as well as extended bytecode >> instructions for managi

Re: Oracle/Sun and the JVM

2010-01-29 Thread Stepan Koltsov
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 13:15, Francis ANDRE wrote: > > So may be Oracle will allow/understand the necessity to have packed/zoned > decimal as first class data type like integers as well as extended bytecode > instructions for managing them I hope that they understand the need of structs/valu

Re: Oracle/Sun and the JVM

2010-01-29 Thread John Rose
On Jan 28, 2010, at 2:10 AM, Raffaello Giulietti wrote: > Perhaps they are only vendor promises, but from yesterday's webcast it > seems that Oracle's strategy about Java is to fully embrace the efforts > for multiple languages on the JVM, among others. > > Am I too optimistic? I hope not. > > L