“IBM officials confirmed yesterday the company has discontinued
its joint development effort with Sun… to bring to market the
JavaOS for Business, a thin-client operating system…
The decision was made, in part, because of the significant
performance improvements IBM has made to the Java virtual machine
(JVM), particularly on the Windows platform…”
“…IBM officials added that they plan to more
aggressively pursue a strategy of placing a version of the JVM on a
number of existing operating systems such as Windows Terminal,
Linux and their own proprietary operating systems…”
“Another reason for abandoning the JavaOS for Business project
was the lack of an industry-standard browser to use with the
would-be operating system. Many users would prefer to have just the
JVM, which can slap onto Netscape’s Navigator or Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer, IBM officials said yesterday.”