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To: Ed Yander who wrote (10905)	8/19/1998 6:10:00 PM
From: Al Cern	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Ed, You said, "Torvalds doesn't want to see Java succeed because Linux success is closely tied to its popularity on Intel hardware. Since Java is a Sun (soon to taken over by IBM) invention it is controlled by anti-Intel forces". Could you explain why IBM is interested in SUN? Sincerely, Al Cern

To: Ed Yander who wrote (10905)	8/19/1998 7:43:00 PM
From: paul	Respond to of 64865

" I could be wrong.: hmmm...nuff said.

To: Ed Yander who wrote (10905)	8/20/1998 8:22:00 AM
From: Mike Milde	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Trovalds writes: << It's also the fact that their implementations were bad. So you have people like HP who just decided that, "Hey, I can do a better implementation. I don't need Sun anymore." >> I've used Java a good bit on Sun and HP. HP's implementation is terrible. It runs MUCH slower than Sun's and the Java Virtual Machine from HP core dumps constantly if you have a sizeable amount of Java code. Sun's is much, much more stable. HP has a long way to go on their JVM. With one of our Java apps we ended up buying a Sun server because it just wouldn't run reliably on HP-UX 10.20 with HP's latest JVM. I don't know why Linus would say this. I assume he just doesn't have much experience with Java and is making an assumption from things he's read in the news. Mike