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I for one, do NOT want any U.S. Company taking over SuSE (or any non-U.S. controlled distro).

IBM has some Linux and open-source work going on in Europe, so it could be natural for them to use a European company as their Linux vehicle. For example, Linux for the /370 (well, whatever they call it now) originated at IBM Germany, and their OTI company develops the open-source Eclipse development environment in Zurich.

Also, in 2000 IBM announced investments of the order of $300M into Linux in Europe, and I would not be surprised if part of that went to SuSE. In fact, maybe this is one reason (except for the obvious ones) that SuSE is not yet going public - they probably have enough money. The IBM/SuSe hardware/software association plays extremely well here. In fact, whenever I hear Linux here, IBM and SuSE seem to pop up.

If SuSE went public, I would be in. And we all remember Digital Research and what difference IBM can make to an OS company...

Of course, Microsoft can't buy out IBM. On the other side, after cashing in lots of government subsidies for developing an independent German IT industry, Siemens sold its computer business to Fujitsu, so I do not see any reason why a non-US company should put up more resistance to Microsoft.

It seems it's about time for IBM to demonstrate their loyalty to Free Software and Open Source by open sourcing Rational Rose ...

... is IBM. These are clean-room VMs and class libraries bundled with a development environment. See http://www.embedded.oti.com. They run on palms, iPaqs and blackberries, as well as on pcs, and most platforms support midp and cldc (J2ME certified) as well as a bunch of other configurations.

IBM's Software Donation: Move To Eclipse NetBeans?
NetBeans IDE 3.3 released
IBM to open source WebSphere tools
threads on Eclipse
threads on NetBeans
threads on IDEA

Eclipse is a product of Object Technology International Inc., which also produced VisualAge for Java.

And as the article "Refactoring with Eclipse" mentioned, "...Erich Gamma is the team lead for Java tools for Eclipse. Gamma was one of the Gang of Four known for creating the book Design Patterns...". I think that Eclipse will be a high quality software.

IBM's Software Donation: Move To Eclipse NetBeans?
NetBeans IDE 3.3 released
IBM to open source WebSphere tools
threads on Eclipse
threads on NetBeans
threads on IDEA

Eclipse is a product of Object Technology International Inc., which also produced VisualAge for Java.

And as the article "Refactoring with Eclipse" mentioned, "...Erich Gamma is the team lead for Java tools for Eclipse. Gamma was one of the Gang of Four known for creating the book Design Patterns...". I think that Eclipse will be a high quality software.

IBM's Software Donation: Move To Eclipse NetBeans?



NetBeans IDE 3.3 released



IBM to open source WebSphere tools



threads on Eclipse



threads on NetBeans



threads on IDEA

Eclipse is a product of
Object Technology International Inc.,
which also produced VisualAge for Java.

And as the article "Refactoring with Eclipse" mentioned,
"...Erich Gamma is the team lead for Java tools for Eclipse. Gamma was one of the Gang of Four known for creating the book Design Patterns...".
I think that Eclipse will be a high quality software.

IBM's Software Donation: Move To Eclipse NetBeans?



NetBeans IDE 3.3 released



IBM to open source WebSphere tools



threads on Eclipse



threads on NetBeans



threads on IDEA

Eclipse is a product of
Object Technology International Inc.,
which also produced VisualAge for Java.

And as the article "Refactoring with Eclipse" mentioned,
"...Erich Gamma is the team lead for Java tools for Eclipse. Gamma was one of the Gang of Four known for creating the book Design Patterns...".
I think that Eclipse will be a high quality software.

But QNX has one HUGE advantage - their OS fits in on the much smaller devices. Even if used on larger devices, there's more room left over for apps - not to mention QNX's micro-kernel architecture.

The Photon GUI is quite small and very pretty.

You can even run a Java environment on QNX using less storage space than Embedded NT/XP/etc, using an embedded VM such as IBM's VisualAge MicroEdition with (the J9 VM)

Whoops! you're mistaken. It was actually originally developed at OTI, a subsidiary that has a big office in Raleigh. Lots of stuff get developed at IBM around the world, then get shunted off to Toronto labs when they become fully productized.

http://www.oti.com/

Check out www.eclipse.org. Or for one supported product using the universal tool platform check out WebSphere Studio Workbench. or the source OTI .

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Java is doing a great job in embedded systems.
Funny, you don't see too many lisp cellphones coming out these days.

Here is a development environment for java on embedded hardware.
Maybe the faq on the site can help to enlightlen you a little.

Its not Linux based OS, but if you want to develop applications for your handheld on a Linux desktop you have options.

For Java, take a look at IBM's Visual Age Micro Edition. It's a fair Java IDE for the J2ME stuff. Free if you don't need the collaboration tools offered in the $99 pro setup. Runtime... well that will cost you if you want to sell the apps to others, but that is another issue. They have a JVM (called J9) that supports Palm, WinCE, and a few other platforms (actually, they support ARM, x86, MIPS, etc., but you know what I mean). You pick your GUI setup based on the platform.

I know there are tons of other options out there for Palm OS application development using Linux as well. I started coding palmtop apps in C/C++ - there are Linux based commercial IDE's that you can get as a student.

Don't forget about vi/emacs/nedit/any other IDE either...there are some fantastic libraries out there if you want to go the GCC route.

actually, dumbass, java was originally written with this exact purpose in mind. write once run anywhere means anywhere not any OS. they have run somewhat astray of their goal, but java first came out, it was touted as being a unifying language for devices and computers. cellular phones, organizers, telephones, televisions, portable audio devices, and even your refrigerator, plus a whole bunch of other junk.

Oh yeah, and enjoy these links:
http://java.sun.com/j2me/
http://www.palmos.com/alliance/guide/levels/global /sun.html
http://www.embedded.oti.com/

Many people mentioned IBM's VisualAge for Java and their 1.3 JVM for Linux - these are great products.

For embedded space, don't forget about their VisualAge Micro Edition as well - you can try it at http://www.embedded.oti.com This is developed by the Object Technology Inc. subsidiary of IBM. They have a VM available something like 20 platforms including Palm.


There's even a version of the VisualAge Micro Edition IDE for Linux as well, which runs very fast, especially when you take into account that it is running on top of the JVM itself.

I wonder how IBM's new embedded Java VM for Linux compares. It's available as a beta for x86 and PPC Linux. MontaVista recently made an announcement that they'll be distributing it with their release of HardHat Linux.

Has anybody tried using VisualAge Micro Edition? It's a Java app. for building embedded Java applications, and the IDE runs on Linux. Could VAME be used to develop applications for Teapot?