Report by Glen
Stampoultzis.
Microsoft has pulled a scheduled demonstration of its
counter-Java virtual machine, a thing called CVM, that was to take
place on May 12 at the Software Development ’99 conference in San
Francisco.
CVM stands for Colusa Virtual Machine, a reference to Colusa
Software, the start-up Microsoft bought three years ago for its
Unix-based Architecture Neutral Distribution Format (ANDF)
technology. Reports have had Microsoft building a counter-JVM out
of the Colusa technology ever since it acquired the company (CSN No
239). The keynote, which was to have been given by Colusa
co-founder and former VP of technology Steven Lucco, would have
been Microsoft’s first official recognition that it has been
working on such a creature.