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albartell skrev den 17-08-2006 15:45:
Personally I think that the iSeries community will only be minimally impacted by this. The OpenSource community have very little interest in supporting a niche ClosedSource platform like the iSeries, and IBM generally tend to make very high quality JVM's so there is no driving urge to fix this. (Notably exception is the java.awt.headless-mess).Interesting piece of news: http://tinyurl.com/gm95fThis could potentially be monumental in both good and bad ways for theentire software industry. I have been listening to the speculation on the Java Posse podcasts as to what this could mean to the community and their thoughts have been interesting
Indirectly it is another matter. Hopefully the arrival of multiple OpenSource JVM's on the platforms available to the mortal man (Windows, Linux, the *BSD's etc) mean that several high quality JVM's will be available to strengthen the position of especially Java Desktop Applications (as they may include the JVM they need). This again will mean that more such will be written in Java, and that Java will be a stronger competitor to .NET applications. This means that Java will generally be a more viable option everywhere, and that more stuff will be available to the iSeries Java programmer also in the long term.
-- Thorbjørn
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