On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 17:58 +0100, Kevin Wright wrote: > I'm with Cédric here, Sun and Oracle alike both had to tow the line for > their most profitable support contract holders, investment banks. > > For their part, the banks largely showed a level of risk aversion that > makes Beaker from the Muppets look like Chuck Norris - paying *vast* sums > of money to ensure that nothing moves much beyond 1.3 (in case something > broke) except for *critical* bug/security fixes. As a result, the language > is largely stagnant and most improvements to Java have happened within the > JVM - which is now so good that a great many other languages want to run on > top of it. > > My personal feeling is that Oracle should capitalise on this, and work to > add features to the JVM to support Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Mirah, etc. > Playing to their strengths instead of playing catch-up with languages that > are better seen as collaborators and not competition.
Whilst investment banks have a reputation for being ultra conservative and eschewing all upgrades, at least two international investment banks I know of are throwing out their Java systems and replacing them with small Scala core and Python everywhere else. Another is replacing the large Java system with a small Java core and Python out in the business units. There will be other case studies. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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