Kees Jan Koster wrote the following interesting article to the FreeBSD-Java list. It mentions the relationship between Sun and Blackdown. (He permitted me forward this article to this list.) Kazuyuki SHUDO Happy Hacking! Muraoka Lab., Grad. School of Sci. & Eng., Waseda Univ. ===== Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 8:48 0000 From: Kees Jan Koster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FreeBSD talk at ApacheCon To: Edward Wolpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Edward and others, > Some of us are stuck in the States... :-) A cookie from your own dough. ;-) > Will there be a page on the 'net that has a > transcript available? Kristinn Thorleifsson from Sun talked about Java on Linux, showing some benchmark results comparing 1.2.2 and 1.3.0. He announced that Sun are as committed to the Linux port as they are to the Solaris and the Windows port. The three ports will be released on the same date from now on. We can expect a major release every twelve to eighteen months. Sun's relationship with Blackdown has changed into one where Sun does the Linux port of the Java core, and Blackdown concentrates on Java3D, JMF and other such APIs. Other Sun speakers were talking about JSP and XML based B2B frameworks. There were demonstrations of dreamweaver and Fort=E9 plugins for JSP. In their keynote sessions both Sun and IBM pledged their loyalty and commitment to the open source community. Why Sun's keynote was at nine in the morning is a complete mystery to me, and of course it wasn't very full. Personally, I applaud the attention open source is getting from Sun and IBM, but I'm having second thoughts about the eagerness that they display. The candle is burning a little too brightly, so to speak. It could just be my suspicious nature, of course. I liked BSDi's story on this much better. In the BSDi booth, Stefan Sj=F6str=F6m spoke of striking a balance between how much they copy and how much they donate. That just sounds more sincere IMHO. I spoke with one of our Japanese committers. (Sorry to forget your name, I am terrible with names) and he warned that there are bugs in the international code of OpenMotif. This area may need some special attention during the testing. In the OpenBSD booth I asked around for interest in a Java port. Wim van de Putte is going to hook me up with the right people. The NetBSD people are talking to Sun on their own. Sun (Kristinn Thorleiffson's department, to be precise) is looking to help them out too. They will receive their own license, separate from FreeBSD. And no, the slides are not up for download. :) Kees Jan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
