How Oracle's business as usual is threatening to kill Java
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/how-oracles-business-as-usual-is-threatening-to-kill-java/
Oracle employees that worked on Java EE have told others in
the community that they have been ordered to work on other
things. There has also been open talk of some Java EE
developers "forking" the Java platform, breaking off with
their own implementation and abandoning compatibility with the
20-year-old software platform acquired by Oracle with the
takeover of Sun Microsystems six years ago. Yet Oracle remains
silent about its plans for Java EE even as members of the
governing body overseeing the Java standard have demanded a
statement from the company. "It's a dangerous game they're
playing," Geir Magnusson, an independently elected member of
the Java Community Process Executive Committee, told Ars.
"It's amazing--there's a company here that's making us miss
Sun."
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Frankly, the sooner we can get out from under Java for both client and
server apps, the better.
--Lauren--
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