On man, 2004-01-26 at 14:08, Chris Bowditch wrote:
Anyone who has worked in a large organisation will know: it is very difficult to upgrade the OS on a server (which is a pre-requiste for later JDKs on some platforms). Large companies tend to have request forms/processes just to copy a single file onto large servers/mainframes, let alone upgrading OS/JDKs.
AIX is one example. To get Java 1.4 on AIX you need at least AIX 5.1. And whats worse is that it also requires a certain level of hardware (Common Hardware Reference Platform). A lot of currently active AIX-servers do not meet this requirement, including our development server at work :-(
I guess that's one of the areas where looking into what free runtimes can offer, as long as your needs are constrained to the (ever-growing) subset of 1.4 covered by them, might be interesting.
Essentially, as soon as a free runtime covers all of FOP's needs, you automatically have another option, i.e. to switch to a free runtime.
cheers, dalibor topic
