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I doubt it was the developers who are responsible for the merging who came up with an 18 month estimate. Invariably it's not going to happen on time or if the

I doubt it was the developers who are responsible for the merging who came up with an 18 month estimate. Invariably it's not going to happen on time or if the 18 month milestone is hit, it'll stay alpha for quite some time. JDK7 + merging of 2 distinct VMs? Sheesh...

rbanffy 16y ago
Oracle certainly has money to throw at the problem. The question whether the problem is one that can be solved by throwing lots of money at it will be answered in 18 months.
- joubert 16y ago
  Throwing money at it probably won't solve it.
  - JoachimSchipper 16y ago
    ... especially considering that quite a few of Sun's star engineers have already left.
  - rbanffy 16y ago
    That's my bet too. And I am quite happy with it. If Oracle completely botches their proprietary, poisonous implementation, OpenJDK may gain some popularity. The biggest risk is giving .NET a more easy market.