Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems

Re:Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems by schizoidboy on Thursday July 16, 2009 @07:15PM (#708997)

I doubt it because IBM has too much skin in the game. Few people are aware, but IBM produces its own JDK:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/

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Re:Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems by davidw on Friday July 17, 2009 @04:54AM (#709522)

For that matter, the Apache Software Foundation has a Java implementation called 'Harmony', although I'm not sure they're allowed to call it Java.

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Re:Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems by brianm on Friday July 17, 2009 @12:53PM (#710252)

That is a sadly long and storied history, which Stephen Colebourne describes best:

http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/sun_apache_ip_in_pi...

There is some hope that the legal shenanigans will stop once ORCL finishes taking ownership of JAVA.

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Re:Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems by felipe on Friday July 17, 2009 @11:26AM (#710067)

BEA has its own JVM as well, and guess who bought BEA?

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jrockit/index.html

By the way, I think JRockIt is the best JVM out there for server-side deployments. I've used both JRockIt and Sun's JVM on EC2, and JRockIt has much better memory management.

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