Yared to Sun: "Why Is It Good to Open Source OpenSolaris...and Bad to Open Source Java?" @ JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL

'Why is it good to open source OpenSolaris and OpenOffice and bad to open source Java?' In an Open Letter to Sun's Jonathan Schwartz, that's what ActiveGrid CEO Peter Yared asked, back in March. Yared added: 'Can you please answer the following question with a single coherent sentence that people can remember and repeat? If I ask five Sun employees this question, I get five different answers, so having simple answers to these questions will clearly help your own workforce as well as your customers and prospects!'

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gatzke commented on the 3 May 2006

Kaffe and GCJ are open source Java implementations, but I don't know how active or good they are.

danharan commented on the 3 May 2006

Googling "PHP JVM", my second hit was Caucho Resin adds PHP:

> "Caucho, the company behind the open source
> application server Resin and the open Web
> Services protocols Burlap and Hessian, has
> recently added PHP to its list of supported
> features. Apparently, the PHP pages are
> compiled in the background to byte-code, and
> the resulting performance is six times that
> of Apache mod_php!"

Being able to call some of the Java libraries from PHP or even Ruby would be pretty nifty; there's some really top-notch stuff that has been developed in Java.

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