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Saturday, June 25, 2005

Scott McNealy discusses Apple's move to Intel chips

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy discusses Apple's migration to Intel chips in an interview with News.com:

McNealy said he expects the transition will take the better part of five years and ultimately could cause a challenge for the software developers that write for the Mac.

"Their ISVs are going to have to decide, do I write to Apple/Power or Apple/Intel?"

Apple's software tools will allow creation of a "universal binary" that puts software for both processors into a single package, but McNealy said a better universal binary is Java, which already lets programs run on a wide variety of computers.

"The big winner on this is going to the Java virtual machine," he said.
Still, he said, it was probably the right move for Apple to make.

No offense to McNealy, whom I actually really like and respect, but the Java virtual machine is extremely uninteresting on the desktop and always will be.

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