On Wednesday 30 June 2004 22:43, Oliver 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.  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.

My conclusion: IBM are telling fibs, really obvious ones too.

I'm not so sure about the current state of affairs but certainly in JDK 1.3 days IBM's JVM and Jikes compiler were often quoted as being faster and better than Sun's respectively.

I was talking about the Sun combination vs the IBM combination.  But I'll take it out since it detracts from the main point.  Thanks.                 Sid.