Linked by Kroc Camen on Fri 19th Dec 2008 09:04 UTC, submitted by Michael
Benchmarks From Phoronix: "Have you ever wondered on what operating system Java works the best? While by no means is it a conclusive multi-platform comparison, for this article we ran a number of Java benchmarks on both Windows Vista Premium and Ubuntu Linux to see how the Java Virtual Machine performance differs. In addition, when running Ubuntu we had tested Sun's official Java package as well as the OpenJDK alternative."
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RE[5]: The Tests
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Fri 19th Dec 2008 17:33 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: The Tests"
Bill Shooter of Bul
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2006-07-14

The Java market is huge. If it gives them an advantage in a huge market, it might make business sense for them to do it. Increasing profit, is not a silly reason.

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