The worst Oracle can do is to stop investing resources in improving it. There are wide range of other sources that you can get a JVM from. Ranging from big IBM,

The worst Oracle can do is to stop investing resources in improving it. There are wide range of other sources that you can get a JVM from. Ranging from big IBM, to smaller players like Azul (zing or zulu), RedHat, Excelsior, JamaicaVM from aicas and many more... Who would all be happy to take your money and the mindshare away from Oracle. OracleJDK might be the no brainer install today for servers. But given any drop in commitment the community is large enough to continue by itself. It will slow down because Oracle puts a lot of money in JVM development so that would be a pity... Oracle likes to use its lawyers, but only if they can actually win money. If someone can imagine how Oracle could make money out of stopping OpenJDK then I would be worried but I just don't see it. I sooner see them sueing Intel for using some patented trick in ICC to make their SpecCPU results look worse than not continuing to support OpenJDK as they have done today. Their model is support JVM's for cash. Improve it internally ahead of the curve for making Oracle Cloud better than the other clouds and just get a foot in the door in Marketing materials and good will. In any case the Java community is so deep and all encompassing that one does not see the giant jungle anymore. The hardcore VM community is much larger than those of Python, Bash or Ruby. With only JavaScript coming close in VM developer head count.