Just a quick note to chime in. The OSF just did a deal with Sun to port Java to several platforms. The OSF is opening a "web mall" where you can grab software objects and run them.
Well, not quite. The "Open Mall" is part of OSF's new advanced technology offerings. Free source for non-commercial use, fetchable from the Open Mall, a Web server. You'll be able to find the mall (in a week or two) from OSF's home page, http://www.osf.org/. The Java ATO includes ports to SVR4 (dunno whose) and HP, and more importantly, a study of the security aspects and implications of Java: is it truly a "safe" language to write in? And what does safe mean, and for whom (server, client, user, hardware, etc)? The study will be a paper, also avail from the mall. See http://www.osf.org/comm/press/950276-ato.html for mroe details. /r$