Re: IBM's AS/400 toolbox for JAVA

[Blair Wyman <wyman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excerpts from java400-l: 24-Mar-99 Re: IBM's AS/400 toolbox fo..
nimrod@cst.com (1896) 

> it would also lock you into the M$ JVM, which I'm 
> sure Blair Wyman has an opinion about ;^) 
> You could go with a COM <==> CORBA bridge, but that is like trying to 
> shoot down a fly with a cruise missile. 

Well, I dunno about the future of the M$ JVM's future, but that "fly
with a cruise missile idea" is flawed from its inception, for the
following 17 clearly-defined reasons. 
1. Flies are non-magnetic, and therefo.!$#!#^$$#@%#% NO CARRIER 
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