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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (37349)	2/2/2000 11:06:00 AM
From: Charles T. Russell	of 74651

Microsoft's JVM is no longer the fastest, nor is it the most efficient. This has been the case for quite some time. The argument that they tuned the implementation just for speed was BS. They tuned it to make it proprietary. The addition of the MSFT UI libraries were a short term enhancement that let Java apps work a little more efficiently. Again, it was a 'tune-up' made to make the JVM and anciallary packages proprietary. In both cases, Microsoft violated the license agreement with SUN. Compliance with the license IS the issue. The JVM and the supporting packages that MS shipped were absolutely NOT compliant. Fortunately the development community didn't let them get away with this. MS spun off their J++ product to Ratonal. Very few people were using J++, why.... cuz it didn't help produce platform independent code. I'm not an MS hater either.

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