Two large companies, Google and IBM, have invested a lot of money and have built multi-billion dollar businesses based on Java: Android and the Rational/Websphe

Two large companies, Google and IBM, have invested a lot of money and have built multi-billion dollar businesses based on Java: Android and the Rational/Websphere Suite. They're probably losing a lot of sleep at night knowing another large and independent player like Oracle owns the thing. I would. IBM has even "joined" the new OpenJDK effort. But it's just a matter of time until they resign over some $$ or licensing dispute. I wonder why they don't seriously team up and do something about this. Google has already many language and vm designers on board, with Python, V8 and Go all increasingly popular. IBM too is no stranger to building languages, runtimes and databases from the ground up. Instead of setting up a true open standard for a cross-platform environment and language, they choose to spend billions on patents and legal fees to defend their status-quo.