Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 8th Jun 2006 23:44 UTC, submitted by Jane Walker
As Red Hat finalized the acquisition of JBoss, senior vice president of enterprise applications Tim Yeaton said the failure to make Java completely open is a disappointment to those who rely on the technology in their products.
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2006-01-18
VM compatibility. I once had to port a medium sized app of 500.000 locs which was developed on Windows into a VM which was running on an RS6000, I had to change exactly one line of code, which triggered am ambiguity in IBMs vm implementation regarding a certain language feature.
Yes the vm compatibility is really that good. And I even given my experiences with other VMs consider something like that a shoddy implementation, it should not have happened.
Every VM has to pass several million unit tests before getting the branding (I think the state of affairs around 2000 was 1.1 million or so so go figure how much they are now 6 years later)