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How is it a dangerous platform? It's still installed everywhere, it still works, it's still useful. Nothing has really changed IMHO
by points 16y ago
How is it a dangerous platform? It's still installed everywhere, it still works, it's still useful. Nothing has really changed IMHO
- hga 16y agoWell, it's got a new steward, Oracle, that's not exactly engendering trust in certain areas such as hemorrhaging key employees and suing Google's Dalvik using VM patents (and the company does not exactly have a nice reputation). Plus as the grandparent noted, Sun's broken promise is clearly going to stay broken and I'll note that various Oracle positions have completely changed now that they own Java(TM). On the other hand, one might say that shedding some of these employees is OK or better and finally getting decisive on moving forward on Java 7 is good ... and the two might not be entirely unrelated. I don't know the inside story and who's to blame, but it's patently obvious that Sun's stewardship of Java was serious failing at the time of the acquisition and for some time before then. Java 7 wasn't converging on getting finished in the foreseeable future and as I understand it the JCP process wasn't being used for it. Note that in a couple of months it will have 4 years since the release of Java SE 6 (prior to 7 the releases 3 through 6 each took 2 years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history)).