> Linux/Unix was barely known to most developers. As a personal machine maybe not, but even in the early heady days of Java, Unix deployment was the norm. I me

> Linux/Unix was barely known to most developers. As a personal machine maybe not, but even in the early heady days of Java, Unix deployment was the norm. I mean, what you're going to pick, one of those new-fangled NT servers or a proper IBM/Sun/HP-UX machine that has almost enough memory to run Oracle properly? But given the "write once, run anywhere mantra", Java had something to prove, which lead to a lot ot NIH.