To be fair I don't think that Oracle have been particularly bad to Java, except beeing Oracle. I doubt Google was ever an alternative. Realistically it was a f

To be fair I don't think that Oracle have been particularly bad to Java, except beeing Oracle. I doubt Google was ever an alternative. Realistically it was a fight for power over the enterprise customers between IBM and Oracle, with most (non OS) products built or integrated with Java. Maybe it was even a hot potato- someone needed to keep their strategic bet alive, since Microsoft also share the same strategy in the enterprise app segment. (Sell complex but underperforming applications to ill-advised customers using long feature lists.)