Ah hokay.
Yep then tell him he’s wrong.
And pardon the passion but you have no idea how often I end up having to explain these things.
The -server option I like. 
If I understand the things right which have been said in the topic “CD re-distribution of JDK”
http://www.java-gaming.org/cgi-bin/JGNetForums/YaBB.cgi?board=announcements;action=display;num=1059518247 , you may distribute even the SDK now with your Java application. Ok, makes more sense for CDs and that like, but still a real good thing. Thanks to SW and Jeff for the clarifications on JVM/Client/Server/…
Current Suse 8.2 Professional (i don’t know about Personal) comes with sun JRE 1.4.1 and SDK 1.4.1 + IBM Jikes (java Compiler) gcc-java 3.3 (gnu java compiler) ANT …
the server vm seem to be in the jre package here ?!?
Suse Professional Edition always had up to date java versions AFAIK
regards
Martin