mergers & acquisitions If you where redhat who...
mergers & acquisitions If you where redhat who...
Posted Jan 7, 2004 14:02 UTC (Wed) by rjw (guest, #10415)In reply to: mergers & acquisitions If you where redhat who... by johnjones
Parent article: Red Hat borrows $500 million
Redhat are big contributors to GCJ, which includes a JVM.
That is where they see the future of Free Java.
I would like to see them set up something which would encourage hardware vendors to open their specs/drivers, but I can't think of how it would work atm...
Things Redhat might like to do with the money:
* Buy Trolltech and LGPL Qt - now that Novell "owns" the most Gnomish company out there, might Redhat get worried? Unlikely... but we can dream.
* Invest properly in DRI/ Freedesktop.org Xserver, including getting Nvidia to support it (or at least expose enough of their driver that its not tied to XFree86). This is clearly the most promising avenue for the future of X. Unfortunately Redhat seem to disdain the desktop nowadays.
* Look into funding capable replacements of proprietary software people consider necessary...video editing, etc...
Posted Jan 7, 2004 14:25 UTC (Wed)
by jdub (guest, #27)
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by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
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Posted Jan 7, 2004 20:20 UTC (Wed)
by wcooley (guest, #1233)
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Posted Jan 7, 2004 17:49 UTC (Wed)
by gerv (guest, #3376)
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Redhat are big contributors to GCJ, which includes a JVM. Are you sure? I thought GCJ compiled Java to native code.
Posted Jan 7, 2004 19:21 UTC (Wed)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Of course main idea behind GCJ is compilation to native code, but it does have ability to load arbitrary .class files in runtime - and how it can be done without JVM? So GCJ has full JVM...
Posted Jan 7, 2004 19:51 UTC (Wed)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Red Hat do *not* have disdain for the Linux desktop market these days at all. Far from it. They ship an enterprise desktop release (RHEL WS). What Szulik said in his horribly misinterpreted comments is that the Linux desktop is not necessarily appropriate for consumer users at this stage, but that they are aggressively targeting the enterprise desktop space. I fully agree with him, and I am deeply involved with The GNOME Project. It is very, very sensible for us to look at the desktop space objectively, aim at the right targets, and not pimp ourselves up to something we haven't achieved yet. We *are* getting there, which Szulik also said.
mergers & acquisitions If you where redhat who...
But the enterprise desktop probably doesn't need accelerated 3D video all mergers & acquisitions If you where redhat who...
that much, and the free driver is perfectly fine for 2D.
It does if you're using it where you'd have used an SGI 5 years ago... Although it's certainly true this is a pretty small corner of the enterprise market.
mergers & acquisitions If you where redhat who...
mergers & acquisitions If you where redhat who...
mergers & acquisitions If you where redhat who...
It can go to class files too, and (of course, as other posters have said) needs a classloader in any case.
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