![]() ![]() Sun has commercially licensed Java to the likes of Borland, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Silicon Graphics, and Symantec (check out Sun's Java licensees for a more complete list). Sun officially only supports its own Solaris 2.x for SPARC and x86, Microsoft's Windows 95 & NT, and Apple's MacOS. I am often asked whether and when there will be support for other platforms. ![]() The fact that anyone could get the Java source code and port it to new platforms and release his binaries to the public was a clear statement that Sun was serious about making Java an open platform. Oak blossomed into Java and addicted vast legions of people because it was basically free. It was totally proprietary and hidden from normal view. This month we'll start off with some discussion about what is happening to the Java support for the platforms that are not one of Sun's big three (i.e., Solaris, Win95/NT, and MacOS) platform priorities. ![]()
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