Seems quiet, but alive...

[Per Bothner]

>    assumption : the article is accurate...

I hope so.  I haven't read the final published version.

>     assumption : the jc1 software in the article was intended to be 
> commercial (sorry). The other two packages mentioned in the article were 
> going to be commercial from what I could tell, so I just ... assumed...

The jc1 software is going to be commercial.  It *is* commercial.
However, there is no *product*, and certainly no $149 product!

>    assumption : jc1 software is related to gcj (i still don't know)

Same thing.  jc1 is the name for the actual copiler pass.
It is invoked by the gcj front-end, just like cc1plus is invoked by g++.
(The name gcj is fairly new.)

>    assumption : the cygnus software and Per Bothner mentioned in the 
> article are the same as those doing gcj...

Yep.

>    fact : the whole project is bitchin and will make the world a better 
> place!

Yep.  It will help cure cancer and send people to the moon ...
[Don't hold me or Cygnus to that!]

	--Per Bothner
Cygnus Solutions     bothner@cygnus.com     http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner