I do know of a shop where an OSS database written in Java was chosen over one written in C++ because of the ability of the internal team to read the code, modif

I do know of a shop where an OSS database written in Java was chosen over one written in C++ because of the ability of the internal team to read the code, modify it, troubleshoot it, etc. That makes sense. It that was driven by pragmatics — maintainability. Not simply bias, or aesthetics or "rule of cool."