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Years ago Oracle would have been in a quite nice position to put up interesting cloud offering. Something like Java platform as a service, bundled with the mess
by jpalomaki 10y ago
Years ago Oracle would have been in a quite nice position to put up interesting cloud offering. Something like Java platform as a service, bundled with the message queues, database etc. Not targeted just to enterprises, but similar to AWS and Azure in the sense that you can get started small. They had quite much interesting related technology from Sun and BEA (and of course from themselves).
And maybe this would still make sense. Java is still relevant. JavaEE provides the packaging for the applications. Maybe the basis for a nice serverless offering (you have for example the message driven beans).
- geodel 10y ago5 years back it would be very interesting proposition. But today a lot of modern cloud infrastructure is getting written in Go. IBM/SAP/Apple betting on Swift for server side applications. So in past it could have been Swift app + Java backend now it is more likely Swift app + Swift backend. I also think with Rust taken up by programing enthusiasts which otherwise would have prefered Scala on JVM is also going to put pressure on Java/JVM.
- edblarney 10y ago"But today a lot of modern cloud infrastructure is getting written in Go" I don't think so. I our circles, we think 'Go' is a thing, but in most of the world, it's not. Rust, Go, these are all popular with new companies. Enterprises are so often .Net/Java + Oracle etc.. It's a big world of hospitals, large companies, government agencies etc..
- geodel 10y agoYes, enterprise apps are not yet there. But lot of infra-like software would have been written in Java if Go were not there. There is growing awareness of Go at big enterprises such as where I work. It will start with sucking oxygen for new projects which would be by default in Java.