The proof is in the pudding... Sun dances with this all the time, personally, I think its just a marketing ploy.
I don't think so myself on this one - see their efforts on other projects such as Solaris. What I think is that they are a big company who respond too slowly and in the wrong way (e.g. using non-standard licenses).
RedHat's development efforts with gcj and GNU classpaths is making very good progress. Now that JBoss is apart of RH, one can only see the open JVM will improve greatly.
Agree totally. There is good comment on the progress at OSNews - http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14617 on this.
So why worry about Sun's JVM?
For corporates it is one more tick in the box for requirements if they migrate... -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand