[jtud] Sun's JVM 'not ready' for PC makers' XP ship
- From: "Karl Dallas" <karldallas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jtud@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <jtud@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <ruxp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,<ruxp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <RUXP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:43:53 +0100
According to ZDnet
(http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5095952,00.html), Sun?s
campaign to get PC makers to include a Java Virtual Machine included
when their machines ship with Windows XP has resulted in their shipping
with Microsoft?s four-year-old JVM rather than Sun?s as yet unfinished
JVM.
The report says: ?Sun has been writing code furiously since Microsoft's
April decision not to ship the JVM with Internet Explorer 6, which is
integrated into Windows XP. Sun had planned to offer an IE 6-compatible
version of the JVM but won't have it ready in time to ship on new
Windows XP PCs.?
Compaq, says the report, is going to ship the Microsoft JVM, rather than
waiting for Sun?s.
?Sun's problem is that the current version of its JVM, 1.3.1, will not
work with Internet Explorer 6,? says ZDnet. ?Windows XP runs 1.3.1, but
because Microsoft abandoned the Netscape-style plug-ins in Internet
Explorer 6, the browser can use only Microsoft's JVM.?
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