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Java's 'Steve Jobs' moment in 2012?
OpenJDK: Right ideas, wrong timing
Five years after Sun Microsystems finally released Java under the GPL, Oracle has been pushing hard on the OpenJDK.
The OpenJDK project followed shortly after Sun’s open-sourcing of Java in November 2005; it’s both a free-and-open-source implementation of Java Standard Edition (Java SE).
The project has seen a fresh lease of life under Oracle, Sun's buyer, who has tempted IBM away from the Apache Software Foundation’s Harmony Java SE project and who also recruited Apple to OpenJDK. OpenJDK also has a new set of governance rules, albeit rules that hand Oracle and IBM a duopoly over ultimate control of the project and, therefore, the roadmap.
But five years after Sun let Java go, what’s the state of the platform and technology?
Java sucks.