Why are still not at 64 bits

[Bayard Coolidge]

For me, the focus of the problem is why Sun, which is supposedly
64-bit savvy (discounting their late[r] arrival in the 64-bit market than
my alma mater DEC), hasn't released a Java plugin to which I can
create a symlink from, in the case of my SuSE 10.2 system,
/usr/lib64/firefox/plugins. I haven't seen one (as of a couple of weeks
ago) anything in the Sun Java V1.6 development site, either... 

I don't care about applications per se - just about all of them, from what I
can tell, will run properly in 32-bit mode in a putatively 64-bit environment.

The java plugin for Firefox won't.

Now, this begs a couple of interesting, quasi-political questions:

1.) Is Sun, for some peculiar reason, deliberately stalling the deployment
of a 64-bit plugin for Linux/Firefox until after they get it running for
Windows (64bit XP or Vista) or, more particularly, Internet Exploiter?

2.) Is there some sort of design issue/trade-off that makes it difficult for
64 bit Firefox to use 32 bit plugins in some sort of compatibility mode?

For those of you who don't me, please try to understand that I Was There for the Alpha launch, and while I'm not a coding guru, I know/knew
many of the folks who wrote the compilers and other tools to port
DEC's U***X product du jour to the Alpha architecture, so I'm somewhat
familiar with the issues, at least in a general sense. Which is why I'm
feeling a bit annoyed, discouraged, and suspicious about this 64bit
Java plugin issue. (I'm not interested in downgrading to Blackdown 1.4,
either, BTW - I'd like to see Sun Do The Right Thing ASAP)

Bayard

 
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