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It 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
by slantyyz 16y ago
It 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.