> Oracle is very obviously continuing Sun's strategy of focusing on the JVM rather than the Java language. Absolutely. Oracle's strategy is very simple: Java s

> Oracle is very obviously continuing Sun's strategy of focusing on the JVM rather than the Java language. Absolutely. Oracle's strategy is very simple: Java should serve as the assembly language for the server side. The JVM should be the de-facto runtime. Like pron suggests, they are actively encouraging alternative JVM languages and I wouldn't be surprised if they invest in the JRuby/Jython implementations for quicker adoption. As someone watching from the side, Oracle's strategy is brilliant.