Guess it all depends what "optimizing " means?

1.  How standard will the result be?
2.  How much faster or whatever will the results be?

Nick D.

Lee Courtney wrote:
>
> Glenn Cole wrote:
> >
> > Item Subject: cc:Mail Text
> > c|net's NEWS.COM reports late today (Friday) on a deal with Tower
> > Technologies (towerj.com) regarding Java on HP platforms:
> >
> >         The deal Monday will involve optimizing TowerJ for HP-UX
> >         (HP's version of Unix), Windows NT, and Linux.
> >
> > Well, that seems to cover MOST of HP's servers. :/
>
> Having the HP breakaway Java developers ignore the 3000 may be a
> blessing disguise. There's a strong possibility that the HP flavor of
> Java for HP-UX will diverge in the future, while the 3000 Java based on
> SUN technology remains compatible and interoperable with mainstream
> Java. Would be ironic if HP's 'proprietary/closed' platform actually
> turned out to be fully compatible and interoperable with the rest of the
> Java world while HP-UX running HPs version of Java became an island unto
> itself and a small number of partners. Kinda like the recent attempt by
> HP to propagate its own 100MB LAN 'standard'.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lee Courtney
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