The R&D cost on both VMware and Java has do be fairly high, so maybe there's some advantage to having fewer customers and just targeting R&D towards their needs

The R&D cost on both VMware and Java has do be fairly high, so maybe there's some advantage to having fewer customers and just targeting R&D towards their needs. It just seems like a dead end, how are they going to bring in new customers? No new companies are going to base their solution on Oracles Java, or Oracle DB. So are they just hoping that some company grows really big and decides that they want to give a large chunk of profit to Oracle?