__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 13 December 2006 17:29 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> BEA to run Java sans operating system
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| In BEA's case, it created software called Liquid VM. Liquid VM is an
>>| addition to the company's JRockit Java virtual machine, which runs
>>| directly on VMware's hypervisor.
>>|
>>| That virtual machine allows Java programs to interact with hardware
>>| servers without the need for an operating system, according to Stephen
>>| Hess, director of product management for the WebLogic Platform.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6142172.html
>
> Um, how is that cutting out the OS? Or do we now consider that the OS
> underneath the VM technology somehow doesn't count?
That's exactly what I thought. I think they just tried to grab a headline. A
bit like "the PC is dead", "the Internet is doomed"...
A BEA executive spread some anti-Open Source FUD recently (in self defence of
course)... but I see they do Linux, too. This morning I found:
BEA Announces Latest Releases of Industry's Leading Foundation for Enterprise
Java and SOA
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| Partnering with a Beijing, China based systems provider,
| Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co., the latest public postings
| combines the new Intel Xeon dual-core chip, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, BEA
| WebLogic Server 9.2 and BEA JRockit(R). For more information on this score,
| please visit http://www.spec.org .
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