Free and Premium JVMs coming soon

[kappa]

A nice summary of where the above stories originated from

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/the_story_of_a_tweet

Also explains why there was complete silence from all the oracle employees. They need to get permission and authorisation before being allowed to publish anything.

[gouessej]

@kapta

Its GPL, unlikely to get any more free then that in the future.
Nothing wrong with charging for extra’s on top of an already free and open product. I’d say this model is better then having spyware/adware in Java like the java installer has. Besides the additional premium features are probably gonna be the ones from JRockit VM, which has always been proprietary.

JavaFX is not free. Some features in the roadmap of JavaFX 2.0 might be very interesting for games, for example the low latency sound system. I agree with you, JRockit VM was not free of charge therefore why not charging a new premium VM that would reuse its features? However, I fear that some important features are going to be available only in the premium version even though they are NOT related on JRockit VM.

[aNt]

@gouessej

JavaFX is not free. Some features in the roadmap of JavaFX 2.0 might be very interesting for games, for example the low latency sound system. I agree with you, JRockit VM was not free of charge therefore why not charging a new premium VM that would reuse its features? However, I fear that some important features are going to be available only in the premium version even though they are NOT related on JRockit VM.

real sound engines are complex indeed.