Friday, June 03, 2005

Why Sun Doesnt Need VMs

Why Sun Doesnt Need VMs:
"And the lesson for us is this: Its the APIs stupid. And our Java
APIs are not dependant on a VM. VM technology is still useful, even
advantageous to us today in a world of mixed platforms but its just a
technical solution to a particular problem-- portability. If the problem
goes away we can still be highly sucesssful if we have established
our APIs as the preferred way of programming the content."

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...