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Everyone but Oracle demands Java independence

• kls 16y ago
  This here, is a prime example of why we reinvent the wheel every 15 years. Someone decides that they have the market and they are going to exploit it and everyone else packs their toys and goes home. Then we once again built the ecosystem on the next technology. I personally am looking at who the next guys is going to be. Node looks promising but it is hard to tell. I used to think "sure Java is aging. but there is no huge motivator to move off, its not going anywhere". Now with each move by Oracle, I am forming the opinion that Oracle is bound and determined to kill it. I don't know what they are thinking, do they think that the Java developers will just go, oh well now Oracle is the only vendor we will get or stuff from oracle? No they will bail, I don't know how they could ever think that it would turn out any other way. I am dumbfounded by the course of action that they are taking. If it is strategic I can't see the strategy for the life of me (I have not seen the forest through the trees before) and if it is incompetence you would think they would realize their drastic missteps by now.