Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 22:17:04 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IBM Java Compiler Message-ID: <4.1.19981207221250.00bcda30@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812071903460.6135-100000@s8-37-26.student.w ashington.edu>
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At 07:11 PM 12/7/98 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: >In case anyone doesn't read slashdot, IBM released it's source for it's >Jikes compiler. I don't know jack err java but this sounds like a cool >deal. > >This is entry number two for IBM into the Open Source foray. They have >adopted Apache and now have released a previously proprietary piece of >software. > >Wouldn't it be poetic if free software along with supportive companies >like IBM dethrone MS. :) > >This smells like a win for free software. Big Blue has not only endorsed >free software by using Apache but it gave a big chunk back in this >compiler. Is this as big a deal as I think it is? > >Does the availability of this software help FreeBSD java efforts? I gotta say, this is definitely a good plus for the OSS cause. I think you'll find that since OS/2 flops pretty hard because of the whole Microsoft thing, that maybe this is a new lead by IBM. I don't see them releasing the source of AIX or anything, but this is above the call of duty certainly. Didn't know they hold tabs on Apache though. I will say on a personal note that my Apache server (Running 19 vservs on a PII-333 FreeBSD box) flies by comparison of the NT 4 Workstation that was running comparable software. Now our web-mail frontend is handled by the FreeBSD box, and just the Netscape Directory Server and Messaging Server crapola is handled by the NT Workstation.. I look at that NT machine though and just have to say "What a waste of a 128mb PII-333"... --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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