Also, as a kind of watermark: Occasionally I'll log into the Durham County Library System's web catalog system (a Java applet deployed via browser). It's relatively quick using IE and MSJVM, but it's slower than molasses on a cold day in FireFox using a Sun supplied JRE in either Windows or Linux. Could be Mozilla's fault, but it's unacceptable. Oh, and Eclipse? The last Milestone 3.0 release doesn't run with IBM's Java. It requires the Sun JDK. Talk about screwball.
Another data point: I just logged into the Durham County Library catalog. Took about 10 seconds to fully activate, searching for author and drilling down to a book description has been quick and easy. I'm running Fedora Core 1 with Blackdown Java-Linux j2sdk1.4.2 in Firefox 0.8.
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