Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2009, 23:04 +0100 schrieb Les Mikesell: > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > > >>> People don't even come to me with > >>> windows questions anymore because I'm so out of touch with > >>> it. Only so many brain cells and I'd rather spend them on > >>> more valuable things(networking, storage, virtualization, > >>> HA, scalability etc) > >> Well, there's always java, in spite of the damage Red Hat has done to it > >> by shipping a broken imitation for years. Maybe hardware has gotten to > >> the point where the overhead doesn't matter. > >> > > No. It matters. And I don't care what version of java, I really dislike > > it, because *it's* broken; or, rather, it failed at what it was supposed > > to do: a) solve the software backlog, > > You can't do that with companies shipping broken or non-standard > implementations. There's not much reason to continue that now. I work in a java shop and I really thik you both are wrong. We do some pretty amazing things with it and openjdk in centos (wich I think you were relating to) is working quite well for us. Chris financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 München | Germany Frankfurt branch office/Niederlassung Frankfurt: Messeturm | Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49 | 60327 Frankfurt | Germany Management board/Vorstand: Dr. Steffen Boehnert | Dr. Alexis Eisenhofer | Dr. Yann Samson | Matthias Wiederwach Supervisory board/Aufsichtsrat: Dr. Dr. Ernst zur Linden (chairman/Vorsitzender) Register court/Handelsregister: Munich – HRB 128 972 | Sales tax ID number/St.Nr.: DE205 370 553