On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > I do believe that with Java now GPL, Linux+Java can be a great platform. > But there are years of parallel development paths and, if I can put it > that way, mutual distrust, that need to be overcome. > So it is still a bit painful (but much much better than a few years ago!). A partial Java implementation, mostly GPLv2 -- see the ""CLASSPATH" EXCEPTION TO THE GPL" in the License file; lacking in a FOSS conformance testing suite needed to permit reproduceable testing of the result It's not there yet; Sun's future is up in the air, and given the pushback on the Innodb (prior Oracle acquisition, left to largely rot since) backend / MySQL 'merger hold' concerns by the EU's anti-trust review organ, it remains to be seen if this will turn out well. See also this post: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/011481.html by a rather prominent former Yahooian/MySQL maven Ellison trotting the penguins out on the stage and being tossed a softball question by the then-most prominent MSFT covering analyst at Goldman Sachs, showed him as 'gaming' Linux. Have you seen a lot of good and community oriented support of OEL 2 out there since ORCL started using some un-modified CentOS images in their SRPM rebuild efforts? my $0.02 -- Russ herrold