*Great news ... watch your Matterhorn installation go down the drain in the
middle of the night when you're not looking.*

*From:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/java-to-be-removed-from-ubuntu-uninstalled-from-user-machines/
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*Oracle’s** Sun Java JDK packages are to be removed from the Ubuntu partner
repositories and disabled on users systems.*

Oracle, in retiring the ‘Operating System Distributor License for Java’,
means Canonical no longer have permission to distribute the package.

The change will affect Ubuntu 10.04 LTs, Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 users only.

Users who have the *‘sun-java-6′* package installed on their system will
see it removed via a future software update – the exact date of which is
‘TBD’.

Anyone requiring the software will need to switch to open-source
alternatives (many of which are readily available in the Ubuntu Software
Centre) or by manually installing the Java packages available through the
Oracle web site.
OpenJDK – Succeeding Java

OpenJDK – which until now has been the open-source alternatives to Java –
will now become *the official implementation of Java*. Oracle themselves
will be using OpenJDK as the basis for their own future
releases<http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the>
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