> Oracle is a do-nothing company Maybe this is true wrt their main product, I neither know nor care about it. The sooner it leaves this Earth, the better for a

> Oracle is a do-nothing company Maybe this is true wrt their main product, I neither know nor care about it. The sooner it leaves this Earth, the better for all of us as far as I am concerned. But both OpenJDK (and Java generally) and MySQL have been on fire since they were acquired by Oracle. Compare the stagnation during the last few years under Sun with massive features that's been coming to both more recently: https://dev.mysql.com/blog-archive/the-complete-list-of-new-features-in-mysql-8-0/ https://dev.mysql.com/blog-archive/the-complete-list-of-new-... Java got many shiny things, a few examples off the top of my head: an almost pauseless GC leagues ahead of all FOSS competition, modules, Go-style green threads, many language features like immutable records, ADTs, switch expressions, etc. Things like value types are on the horizon. Oracle is by far the main developer of both the language and its most popular implementation. Adoptium and company mostly just take the source and repackage under their own brand.