[ Thanks to Kevin
Reichard for this link. ]
“Who could have predicted two years ago that as we reached the
millennium it would be IBM–and not Sun Microsystems–that was most
strongly pushing Java on Linux?”
“But it’s true. Between the release of a popular Java Virtual
Machine (JVM) and the Jikes Project, which brings an
industrial-strength Java compiler to Linux, IBM has strongly
advanced the cause of Linux and open-source software on the
enterprise level….”
“We see the value proposition here in the development and
deployment of an open platform,” he says.”To do this, there
are a number of initiatives that are important but don’t do it on
their own–XML is obviously important, as is Linux for servers and
Java for development. But you need to combine tools from these
initiatives.”