Hi, I do not work at any of the major JVM vendors but can point to trends in the space. Disclosure: My business relies heavily on the JVM and I am heavily invo

Hi, I do not work at any of the major JVM vendors but can point to trends in the space. Disclosure: My business relies heavily on the JVM and I am heavily involved in the java community from the AI side. We also do a ton of java systems development and have had conversations with many of the JVM vendors over the years including azul,oracle,red hat, and IBM. Azul started running a "pure openjdk" distro a bit ago that they provide support for. They also provide a licensed embedded version. They are differentiating with a pauseless GC. Oracle uses the JVM in a lot of their products. App servers are slowing down in favor of microservices now. This unbundling started with spring boot and supporting Java EE annotations. We can see this with Java EE migrating to eclipse now because the annotations themselves have become commoditized. Red hat started supporting jdk 7 in RHEL and was probably a bigger proponent of the "open" bits. Overall here, just of note: Java has always had the JCP. https://jcp.org/en/home/index https://jcp.org/en/home/index I'm guessing that enough of the member organizations started pushing more for opening of the JVM. Finally overall, we can see in the space that even at java conferences, a lot of conversations are moving towards "JVM as a platform" including scala and clojure in the conferences now. So overall, I would say it's largely a shift in both the thinking and the way you monetize the JVM.