Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:46:14 -0500 From: Brian Adkins <brian@lojic.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Java support Message-ID: <4.1.19990314213618.00aa8450@mailbox.iwaynet.net>
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Hello, can you tell me how the FreeBSD organization feels about Java? In other words, are you committed to supporting it on FreeBSD now and in the future? I ask this for two reasons: 1) I'm evaluating operating systems to be used to host Java server applications, and I'm looking for an alternative to NT and Solaris - both of which currently have excellent Java support. 2) I would think that a committment to Java would be *very* important to the free UNIX organizations. Java is an incredible language to develop in and does offer an alternative to the Wintel monopoly. You have millions of Java programmers and many of them have been attracted to the cross-platform capabilities of Java and are dying for a deployment platform other than NT. Personally I think a free OS combined with Java is an incredible combination; however, when I read things like "this might work for you, or it might not" on the Java port page, it makes me not want to consider FreeBSD as a host for my server even though everything else about FreeBSD gets me excited. By the way, we're not developing an internal application, we have a vertical market app that in many cases will be installed as a complete system (hardware, OS, app etc.). I would really like to be able to recommend FreeBSD as the OS of choice for the turnkey systems. thanks, Brian Adkins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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