On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, George Swan wrote: > The "inspiration" for this is that I've got Forte for Java (Linux) > installed ... but it sure is sluggish! > (As an example of another large application, the Oracle8i works just > fine.) Oddly enough, I've got RedHat 6.0 installed with the JDK and JRE > upgraded to 1.3 and yet Forte still loads alright... it's just sluggish. Oracle is written in C, Forte and Netbeans in Java. I _NEED_ a good Java IDE but all of them are written in Java. And sloww. On any machine I've tried - K6-III/500MHz, PIII/700MHz (at home, both with 256MB RAM), a big 4 proc Sun at the office. Sun is the next Microsoft in this respect. No matter how fast your processor is, Java will be slooooooowwww... </rant> florin