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I found it curious that they omitted J9 too. That said, I haven't kept up with what IBM has being doing with it lately and I've always been under the impression it is a closed project that isn't likely to influence the overall direction of Java.

I wish Microsoft would make the CLR open source and OS agnostic. That would make things really interesting.

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Sadly, it's extremely hard to see that happening. Write once, run anywhere was a basic attempt at undermining the importance of Microsoft; oddly, it seems to have undermined differences in server OSes. CLR will always be a framework that makes Windows important for basic business reasons.

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