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| Posted on 15-Sep-2004 22:32 GMT by Gary Goldberg | 39 comments
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By Leander Kahney
02:00 AM Sep. 13, 2004 PT
A Silicon Valley startup claims to have cracked one of most elusive goals of the software industry: a near-universal emulator that
allows software developed for one platform to run on any other, with almost no performance hit.
Transitive Corp. of Los Gatos, California, claims its QuickTransit software allows applications to run "transparently" on multiple
hardware platforms, including Macs, PCs, and numerous servers and mainframes...
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64914,00.html?tw=wn_6techhead
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| Posted by noggin on 20-Sep-2004 08:51 GMT | I'm not sure if people actually realise this, but Tao's VM technology is Java. It's a small+fast implementation of the virtual machine, and AFAIK nothing more than that. I'm less clear on AmigaDE, I guess it is either a re-badge with the Amiga name (fair enough), or chucks some game-related API's on top of Tao's Java VM. If they do add API's, they are completely redundant IMO. J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) already has perfectly good, standard API's to deal with game stuff already (MIDP, CLDC, MMAPI, JSR-184).
BTW, there are are also more languages that run on the Java VM than there probably ever will on .Net (if your really interested, I'll find you a link to IIRC, hundreds). They are not officially supported by Sun of course, so if you want an officially supported non-Java language VM then just go with MS.
I don't quite understand the point in arguing .Net against Java here, and I certainly don't see .Net as a "better" technology. It's just different. You either you throw your lot in with Sun or with Microsoft. I know what I continually choose based on (1) track record, (2) the relative open-ness of the tech, and (3) being a proven solution. But that is not really the point. The likelihood is that nobody will "win", so there is no point arguing about it until there are independent and fair assessments of the two technologies in *real environments*. This is something we have not seen yet since the only studies so far have been clouded by dodgy back-handers from both sides (some more public than others).
Ultimately, it's too early to tell for .Net - give it a few more years.
For enterprise-level business, and for the mobile phone industry, development using VM-like environments is almost completely Java. That may indeed change over time. It will certainly be interesting to see what pans out. |
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