Seems quiet, but alive...

Fri Oct 9 13:08:00 GMT 1998

> Is there a ball-park price for that [Java] product,

Of course not. There is no product. We don't make up prices for
things we don't sell. (While we have sold [but not delivered] Java
to one customer, the amount of money involved is just a totally
different ball-park than the 149ドル no-support no-development
skrink-wrap you mentioned.)
> and when can we play with it?

When we have a reasonably clean and stand-alone run-time. Soon.
> and compiled java - from source 
> or bytecode - should load/run bytecode java dynamically at run time

This may take a little longer to do. While a simple interpreter
is (mostly) quite simple, there are a few tricky issues (such as
calling from a compiled method to an interpreted one and vice versa)
that will take a little effort to get right. We are concentarting on
pure stand-alone fully-pre-compiled executables initially, with
support for an interpreter (or JIT) coming later.
	--Per Bothner
Cygnus Solutions bothner@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner