Fantastic from the Java side. They have made a number of very useful improvements to the JVM e.g. addition of JRockit, new parallel GC etc at no cost. It is an

Fantastic from the Java side. They have made a number of very useful improvements to the JVM e.g. addition of JRockit, new parallel GC etc at no cost. It is annoying that they don't offer a repo to allow for easy updates but there are scripts to help. And they just seem eager to push the platform forward with a confidence that was lacking from Sun.