Hi, On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:44 +0100, Tim Ellison wrote: > There are two distinct groups within IBM doing class library work -- > hey, it's a big place! > > One group provides a robust J2SE based on the Sun libraries for many IBM > products/platforms [1]. The other group has no access to Sun code and > provides a (similarly robust <g>) smaller set of IBM-authored libraries > for embedded product offerings [2].
You seem to forget group 3 (wow, IBM is big!) that produced JikesRVM and that actually switched from those robust IBM-authored libraries to GNU Classpath <double g!> :) IBM research published an interesting paper about this that is worth a read. The Jikes Research Virtual Machine project: Buliding an open-source research community B. Alpern, S. Augart, S.M. Blackburn, M. Butrico, A. Cocchi, P Cheng, J. Dolby, S. Fink, D. Grove, M. Hind, K.S. McKinley, M. Mergen, J.E.B. Moss, T. Ngo, V. Sarkar, and M. Trapp. IBM Systems Journal, Vol 44, No 2, 2005. http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/442/alpern.pdf Cheers, Mark
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