[lmm]

> However, that's not what Avian is designed for. We (ReadyTalk) don't have the resources to compete in that sort of market, as fun as that might be. We designed Avian to run a relatively light-weight client application, so we can deploy the same code across all our platforms. We're not running a game or a server, so we don't care a lot frame rate or requests per second.

I still don't see how it's better than Java in that scenario, which also runs on all platforms?

[sesteel]

It really stems from the need to deliver commercial software to enterprise customers on a variety of platforms. At least some (if not many) enterprise customers don't want to roll out Java across all of their clients machines. Additionally, not all enterprise customers have the privileges required to install Java themselves. The bundling of the application into a single executable file is advantageous in this scenario.