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List:       subversion-users
Subject:    Re: Subversion/Eclipse Performance on Windows
From:       Les Mikesell <lesmikesell () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-01-30 15:53:49
Message-ID: 4983228D.7080706 () gmail ! com
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Bob Archer wrote:
>> For the case of Java, however, Microsoft was actually very friendly to
>> the technology (for awhile). Their Java compiler and VM for Windows
>> were the fastest around. But this was in the 1990s, and Microsoft's
>> attitude toward Java has changed considerably since then.
> 
> IIRC Sun didn't want MS shipping a JVM... especially one superior to the
> one Sun shipped. Nor did they want MS shipping a Java IDE which is why
> J++ was dropped. Sun's complaint was that if you used J++ apps wouldn't
> be cross platform which was only true if you used the Windows API
> extensions.

Which, if that was the only version of something-like-java that you 
used, you would use because they were on by default and you wouldn't 
know until you tested on a different platform that it wasn't portable.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@gmail.com

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