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Sun Demurs On Open-Source Java
Tarantolato writes "A Sun spokesman and James Gosling now say that there are no set plans to distribute Java under an open-source license. According to Gosling, 'the debate is still going on, fast and furious'. Concerns about forking are cited, as usual."
How is this Flamebait? I thought it was a great idea then they go and take it away?
You might want to look at the parrot project.
http://www.parrotcode.org/
The world hasn't been standing still waiting for Sun to make up its mind. The hacker community has been busy as bees cooking up some Open Source Java. Here is complete rundown.
i think the perl people are doing exactly this for perl6.
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But they aren't. Lets not forget the Xserver G5's and the 4th largest super-computer on the planet built out of them. IBM is the driving force behind the G5 and the upcoming G6 chips, and from all media reports IBM has the advantage on the amount of transistors in the waher. Also, their Mac OSX server is gaining marketshare, and the RAID they have is the cheapest you can find for the $/per megabit. And since you don't sound like you know what your talking about, I'll add they are certified for Windows and UNIX systems. I don't think anyone can cling to their dual 64-bit G5 processors and say they are faster than Pentium 4's wrongly. They are, in fact, much faster than the P4, but then again so are the AMD 64-bit chips.
There is a rage in me to defy the order of the stars, despite their pretty patterns.
No, Microsoft already pulled out of that investment because Apple made them a ton of money.
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Yeah, but speaking as an -employee- of Sun, the time it is taking to change the guard is starting to kill us. At the Director level and _below_ there are a lot of good folks, but above the Director level (including Director+VP level) they just need to go. And we all know that won't happen until the top level is chopped.
And I keep thinking it will happen after every RIF and annual loss, hell, that thought is what keeps many of us here because we -know- what we could do if things were going in the directions they should.
I would caveat this with saying that I think Schwartz should stay, but I am starting to believe that his support of Open Source and Linux as mass-market sellers is a facade. However out of the entire upper echelon I would want him to stay over all others.
Sun has gotten in the feedback-loop track. They make a sweeping change in the -lower- ranks and if it doesn't fix things by the next analyst meeting, they do it all over again. The problem is that the core issues are driven by the upper ranks _and_ you can't measure success or failure of strategic level changes in a couple of quarters. If you change over and over again you never find out which of those changes will actually work. A number of businesses (media outlets especially as relates to ratings/sweeps) are susceptible to this, but I have never seen a player in Tech succumb to it quite so badly.
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