> write once, run anywhere. Was such a great promise. I remember visiting PCExpo in the late 90's and Sun's booth had a Java demo running on three machines: L

> write once, run anywhere. Was such a great promise. I remember visiting PCExpo in the late 90's and Sun's booth had a Java demo running on three machines: Linux x86, Windows X86 and Solaris Sparc (OSX wasn't even revealed yet). You could run a few demos you selected from a menu one of which was a 3D ship with accelerated OpenGL which really thrilled me - cross platform everything, even CAD and gaming. Amazing! The future is finally here. And it never happened. Bummer. Instead we got a badly hacked up hypertext viewer with various VM's duck taped to the sides.