Yeah, Yeah Keith, Embrace and Demolish and all that. It's not exactly news for HP to side with Microsoft in something like this, they've been more or less in Bill's camp for a while.
May be a pipe dream, but the dream has held together a lot longer than anybody credited it for in the beginning. Maybe you'd prefer "partnerships" like the Microsoft/OEM thing, where Microsoft treats them all like dirt, and they have to smile and pretend to like it? You think Novell is going to join Microsoft against Sun? I think you are purveying misinformation.
I thought we learned this lesson with Unix. The wonderful unix standards committees brought us crap like Motif which is why Unix is suffering today.
Gee Keith, you're the one who seems to be assuming nobody learned any lessons from unix, and the fragmentation thing is just going to repeat itself. With Bill and the PR minions behind the effort, it could happen, but I don't think it's a foregone conclusion. It's one front of the war that was declared Dec. 7, 1995. It's not over.
Others wanting more details beyond Keith's snippy little summary can read news.com
Hewlett-Packard (HWP) today announced plans to market its own Java virtual machine, and said that Microsoft has licensed the technology for its Windows CE operating system.
Now, why is the purveyor of the best of breed Microsoft JVM and associated technology going off and buying a JVM from HP? I just don't understand.
Cheers, Dan. |
