From owner-freebsd-java Wed Oct 4 8:58:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8EE37B503 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA21850; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:58:40 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00320; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:58:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:58:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010041558.JAA00320@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Robinson Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun Keynote at JavaCon2000 In-Reply-To: <200010040442.e944go000679@netrinsics.com> References: <39DA42BA.808EB629@AJNewman.net> <200010040442.e944go000679@netrinsics.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >FYI, George Paolini (VP Sun) gave a keynote at JavaCon2000, and notable > >on the slides was an official port of JDK1.3 to FreeBSD/BSDi. > > And two years ago they had slides with Hotspot outperforming C++. > > If Sun/BSDi have multiple programmers tasked, milestones, and a release > schedule, then why is it such a big secret? > > If not, then what is that slide supposed to mean? That when Nate and > Greg get done doing all the work in their spare time, Sun will bless > it as an official Sun product (ala Blackdown)? Something else? As I understand, 'official' doesn't mean 'Sun product', but means 'Sun blessed'. In other words, it passes the JCK, meaning it's an 'official' Java licensed product just like JBuilder, VCafe, and other Java products. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message