Boo oracle.
Certainly looks that way doesn’t it. However it would probably be pertinent to mention at this point that Oracle does not yet own Sun. Everything happening here is Sun management decisions, not Oracle.
Cas 
Now that the EU (almost definitely) decides against the takeover, things at Sun will probably be in limbo state for a few more months.
Should be easy enough to sort out: they’ll flog MySQL. Maybe for a buck.
Cas
The sale isn’t final but that doesn’t mean that oracle isn’t whispering in sun’s ear.
Exactly. I think it’s safe to say that whatever form desktop Java takes in the future, Oracle will not be focused on making it a viable gaming platform.
Sorry to hear about this.
OpenGL is not about gaming as such - it’s about high performance visualisation, and that’s a much bigger market than games alone, with medical and scientific imaging, CAD/CAM, and VR to name but three other big business markets. It’s crazy to neglect the client in this way.
Cas
Let me augment my statement, then: “They probably will not be focused on making it a viable high performance visualisation platform either”. Let’s face it, none of that comes very close to Oracle’s core business. As it happens I’m not really using it for games myself, but biological visualisation - albeit in more of a playful application than a real scientific one. (I assume Cas’ post was in response to mine).
Anyway, I hope JOGL stays in good health. Now that Sven is around, I wonder if he has any comment on the emitter bugs that prevents cgGet*AnnotationValues from working.
Indeed. It is rather pesky that the two parents squabbling over Java (well, in fact everyone who seems to have any sort of big vested interest in Java) are all making their big money in serverside technologies and don’t care much about the client.
Bizarre as it is to say it I think Java would probably flourish best if owned by Adobe. But then the server side stuff would likely be neglected. You just can’t win.
Cas