My original message got bounced because of its large size anyways - have deleted the earlier portions of the mail so that this mail gets though
ram ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ramnarayan.K <ramnaraya...@gmail.com> thanks this is good to know right now am sticking to using virtualized windows to run the software - don't want to mess my carefully setup linux just for a few days of work. regards ram On 24 July 2014 16:19, Rohit Bhute <rvbh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Oracle Java is built from OpenJDK. During the build process, where > possible, they use proprietary libraries if they are better than the > available open source ones present in OpenJDK - e.g fonts, graphics, > cryptography, DRM, etc - leading to subtle differences in the JVMs. A Java > expert can tell us more. > > The only reason Oracle provides an RPM is because it already builds the > Java packages for its Unbreakable Linux (itself built from Red Hat). > > What happens is software with extensive requirements (like tax-filing) > gets built and tested only against one implementation of the JVM (which is > Oracle, because nobody ever got fired for suggesting Oracle, or Microsoft, > IBM, HP, etc.) and then it stumbles when used against another JVM. > > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/61558/whats-the-difference-between-openjdk-and-sun-java-for-the-end-user > > > Regards. > > Rohit Bhuterohitbhute.in twitter.com/rohitbhute > > >
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