Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 02, 2003 09:21 PM
The world no longer needs over-priced sparcs. Sun has no means to make money with Java, and no ability to free it the way it needed to be freed so it becomes truelly common and well supported on other platforms. When one typically has to depend on un-optimized and/or otherwise obsolete or buggy binaries to get Java to run on ones Linux distribution of choice, to wait for someone to release native binaries on FreeBSD (which finally happened), etc, it is not a truelly usable or "common" platform. Sun can't make Java available in ways that the community can fix it and do these things on it's own, so Java is a dead-end on free platforms, the it could have gained most.
IBM doesn't need to make money from selling the right to make Java. IBM already has a huge business investment in Java being successful and functional everywhere. IBM could wait for Sun to die and buy it cheap, free Java, and make it into a real and universal standard, and actually make more money as a result! IBM is on a Sun deathwatch, waiting for the best price.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 02, 2003 09:21 PMIBM doesn't need to make money from selling the right to make Java. IBM already has a huge business investment in Java being successful and functional everywhere. IBM could wait for Sun to die and buy it cheap, free Java, and make it into a real and universal standard, and actually make more money as a result! IBM is on a Sun deathwatch, waiting for the best price.
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