[geeks] Sun files suit against Microsoft

[Dave McGuire]

On March 9, Amy wrote:
> it doesn't quite play nice with windows (after two forced reinstalls,
> this is putting it mildly). it gives the impression that java is broken and
> not windows when you get the lovely error messages.

  I second this, on both points.  First, Java definitely does *not*
play nicely under Windoze.  In the past few weeks, I've run lots of
Java stuff under MacOS X and Solaris 7 and 8...and all of it,
including JDBC and serial I/O, works flawlessly.  Moving it to a
Windoze XP machine, however, was very painful and took three attempts
before getting anywhere.

  To the second point...Sridhar and I just developed a sizeable Java
application (the one mentioned above), and I think I speak for both he
and I when I say rather emphatically that Java, on the whole, is FAR
from broken.  It kicks ALL SORTS of ass all over the place, for
various reasons.  From my recent experience, it seems pretty clear to
me that Microsoft has no interest in seeing Java work well under
Windows...they'll certainly never assist Sun in stabilizing the VM,
thus leaving it out in the cold with all the other "non Microsoft"
software packages that, inexplicably, don't seem to run as well as
Microsoft's own Windows-based applications. (in relative terms of
course)

        -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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