Mike wrote:
We inked the deal with Sun the morning of our first public demonstration of our VM and JIT compiler running in an IE 3.0 beta. We had no delivery of Sun code at all at that time, everything was written by developers on our team, the VM, the JIT, the GC, ActiveX integration, everything we showed.
Apparently, you are so famished for the feeling of being innovative that you intentionally blinded yourself and wrote a JVM without refering to the publicly available reference implementation. Although I find this impossible to believe (It is quite stupid if it's true), it does make for an interesting story. Does everyone at MSFT lie? Come'on, Mike - you know damn well that you had the Sun reference implementation next to you as you coded...
If I were you, I wouldn't brag about the ActiveX integration either - you're lible to get linched for that "roach motel" trick.
Symmantec's JVM is simply better. Hands down. You seem to admit the same in your post. Very honorable and un-MSFT like you. Vaporware is just that. Let's not compare your JVM of tommorrow to Symmantec's of today, bad form.
Sun buying Animorphics? Who knows, they have their reasons. I doubt it has anything to do with not being able to develop in house - they obviously saw something that they wanted to make part of the Java platform. THEY DO OWN THE JAVA PLATFORM, Mike.
Mike, you are much to defensive. This is a sign of pent-up frustration and self-doubt. It sounds like you have alot of experience, but a suffocated drive to innovate. Let me know, I'll hook you up with a much less cultish, more innovative environment.
Meanwhile, while you're driving that car of yours, take a moment to study the interior. Pretend that it's not your car. Ask yourself, "Is this really the style I like?"
-Dan
P.S. The public thinks as you do, Mike. It is the vast pool of Silicon Valley high-tech workers (in general) that think as I do. We have the priveledge of doing so, for we understand the truth. And Mike :-), NO AMOUNT OF CHEST BEATING WILL CHANGE THAT, EITHER. |
