On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Stevet <[email protected]> wrote: > But doesn't IBM have their own version of Java? And wasn't this why they > were not affected by the zero day exploits of Sun & Oracle Java? >
Yes. But IBM's Java in on the IBM side of the world. The non-support of Java for browser plugins is on the desktop side of the world where the browser code lives. So the browser on the desktop is where the Java support for plugins needs to exist. And Oracle says that it's going away. M$ wins in that they tried to "unsupport" Java in Internet Explorer many years ago. > > Or am I missing something here? > > -- Werner Heisenberg is driving down the autobahn. A police officer pulls him over. The officer says, "Excuse me, sir, do you know how fast you were going?" "No," replies Dr. Heisenberg, "but I know where I am." Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance -- Jim Horning Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
