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I believe that the current WebObjects license (while no longer having a licensing fee) stipulates that it should be run on Apple hardware. Some wags have specul
by cosmicray 16y ago
I believe that the current WebObjects license (while no longer having a licensing fee) stipulates that it should be run on Apple hardware. Some wags have speculated that it would be OK to run it on an Mac Pro even with Windows 7.
I don't believe this is an immediate issue, but one that people doing long term planning should consider. If you want to write/run Java code, have at it. If you want to write something that will be widely distributed, you may want to think carefully.
- slantyyz 16y agoIt used to be cross platform. Back in the dotcom days, I was at a company that would sell implementations of it for Windows and Sun servers. That was when the software price started at 50k (iirc) though. When you're charging that kind of coin, I guess the motivation to support Windows is higher.
- uriel 16y agoJava has never been cross platform. Back in the dot.bomb days running java on anything other than Windows and Solaris was a huge pain in the ass when not outright impossible, and there was Sun's infamous internal memo about how much Java on Solaris sucked!
- blasdel 16y agoI found the memo from 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20030210024427/http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/memodetails.php?memo_id=1321 http://web.archive.org/web/20030210024427/http://www.interna... -- this blog thread discussing it is enlightening: http://www.advogato.org/article/624.html http://www.advogato.org/article/624.html
- slantyyz 16y agoI was talking about WebObjects.
- jonhendry 16y agoThat might have been when WebObjects was still using Objective-C.
- slantyyz 16y agoOur coders wrote their code in Java.