[Shaun_MD]

Java better not be doomed. Without my morning cup I get mighty cranky :)

[alecqss]

Frankly, I can not say at the moment what the changes will be (also, presently I don't have much concern for the coming changes).

I would expect that Oracle is having here a good chance at making Weblogic THE Java Application Server and therefore at increasing its market share. Oracle Database could benefit, too, from being first in introduction of new Java features.

I'd also expect that not all Java will be open source - Oracle will likely maintain such status for the core packages and certain others, but will close the packages where they can get a competitive advantage.

[libh8er]

I think under Oracle Java EE will see a major push to hurt .Net. I still don’t see how they can make money off it however.

[smokingfrog]

no

[MediaMole]

This doesn’t even go into the risks for MySQL, under Oracle.

Java doesn’t threaten Oracle’s primary revenue stream, MySQL does.

[Myrddin]

I've tolerated having to write code in Java since 1996. It was a moving target early on. Having to download multiple JDK/runtime packages to handle the different variants that may arrive over the network is a real pain in the butt. The "write once, debug everywhere" complaint is valid. The changes to the security model broke lots of code. It was no picnic trying to portably satisfy the Sun and Microsoft JVM/runtimes that were operating side by side in 1998/1999.

Aside from some maintenance of work from other programmers, I've avoided any new work of my own in Java since early 2000. My code is largely ANSI C or C++. It is portable and rarely takes a hit when the next round of GNU C/g++ arrives. As such, I'm sort of ambivalent about what Oracle does with Java. I've written a fair bit of code in C#. In my estimation, it has all the goodness of C++ and Java rolled together while fixing many of the defects in those languages. The "mono" project is doing a fairly decent job of bringing C#/.Net frameworks to Linux. To date, I only run C#/.Net projects as dedicated applications or server side special applications. The coding goes quickly and is debugged rapidly. The performance is satisfactory as well. As for Java, I'll just get some popcorn and watch. I don't have any eggs in that basket.

[Glenn]

If Java were a profit center, Sun might still be Sun instead of Oracle.

[bmwcyle]

ping

[dfwgator]

Might not hurt to start learning Ruby.