It was never Sun's intention to provide platform specific JVMs. They wanted each platform to do that on their own. MS tired to adopt and extend and deployments started making demands for Linux which left a huge gap in VM providers which... Sun decided to fill out of necessity.
Regards, Kirk On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Chris Adamson wrote: > And in 1997, it was pretty understandable why Sun wasn't that > interested in the Mac: a lot of people didn't think Apple would still > be in business by 2000. Sun was perfectly happy to let someone else > carry the Java banner on Mac. For a while, Sun even put a few of its > engineers at Apple to work on MRJ, although they were among the first > layoffs as Sun started its slow decline. > > On Oct 22, 6:08 am, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> > wrote: >> On 10/22/10 12:01 , opinali wrote:> Why did Apple insist on having control >> of the Mac JVM years ago, when >>> Sun wanted do do that? >> >> As Chris said, unfortunately in this case Sun is to blame for the poor >> engineering and integration, at the time. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
