On Thursday 01 July 2004 20:50, Andreas Girardet wrote:
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Now Sun's JVM is a beautiful thing. And it is Sun's JVM that will take hardware customers from IBM to Sun. When it comes to heavy lifting, for the same money, Sun's JVM running on Solaris and Sun hardware will outperform the corresponding offering from IBM -- I reckon. And IBM knows it too. And the gulf will only widen.
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The opposite is happening. Sun is shrinking and IBM is gaining, stop dreaming, live the real world. IBM is doing more than anyone else in and for Open Source/Linux.
Please, I didn't say that IBM is shrinking and Sun is gaining -- now that would be the opposite to what you assert.
Sun in the Desktop they released are closed sourcing Linux and do not even mention in the copy I bought that it is Linux or that it is GPL. It reads like the Solaris license.
What does this have to do with Java on Linux? Nobody can close-source Linux. Wow talk about irrational! (below)
Scott McNealy is Bill Gates's new buddy and they both do not like what Linux is doing to their own market. Why you write this irrational slander onto a Linux list is beyond me.
What does this have to do with Java on Linux? If you look at my replies to your assertions, you will notice that you might be the one sounding irrational. Please do not use emotional terms like "slander" -- they are boring.
As I said ... stop dreaming. Why would anyone buy Sun hardware these days if they spend a third of the money for the same performance for an IBM system.
Check out the latest java benchmarks for Java 1.5.
Andreas
Nice to hear from you Andreas. Are you still working for IBM? If you are, why don't they open-source their JVM given their alleged predilection to. Why are they trying to get the "shrinking" Sun to do it? Sid.