William Henry wrote:
> Woops.
>
> In my last post I forgot to mention the influence of open source.
> Open source has changed many of the rules of adoption too. In many
> ways open source has given some power back to the developers. And in
> some ways it keeps the SIs and analysts and platform vendors
> honest ;-) And open source often leverages open standards which only
> adds to its credibility.
The Jini specification and Suns contributed implementation of Jini are now open
source. This has created some renewed interests in Jini.
Opensource Java doesn't make sense. That's like saying we should have open
source intel processor specs, to me. What might make sense is for there to be
more than one implementation. However, I think that GCC has shown that the
development community at large, appreciate having only one source of bugs.
I appreciate having a single JVM base that allow me to have an equally capable
deployment on my OS of choice.
In the 10 years that I've used java, only the first 4 did I explore using
alternative JVMs. But, I only did that to get linux support from blackdown.
Since sun has supported linux, I haven't had any reason to use a different JVM.
It's a standard, and bugs, or performance would be the only reason to try
something different.
Gregg Wonderly
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