While the situation is far from perfect, I am at least happy that actual progress is made, as we have a release date for JDK7 and respective JSRs at last. Rega

While the situation is far from perfect, I am at least happy that actual progress is made, as we have a release date for JDK7 and respective JSRs at last. Regarding the "premium JDK", I dont mind Oracle charging companies like investment banks extra bucks for additional JRockit-features (Monitoring, etc) that the open source community never actually had free access to anyway. There are so many Oracle products that heavily depend on Java, that it does make no sense for them to hurt Java. If they destroy Java, they destroy part of their income, which I just dont see happening. Although the geekish OSS-nature of Sun's stewardship is gone, things could be by far worse for the Java ecosystem. Speaking from our situation, I dont see us switching to .NET any time soon. Although it is a great platform especially with the recent developments on C#, for us it is just not cost-effective to buy new Windows Server, SQL Server, etc licenses for every new non-trivial project. It is just far easier and cheaper to build a new Debian-machine on our VMWare cloud and apt-get whatever we need.