Fairly comprehensive powerpoint presentation sort of thing. Java seems to be the crown jewels on the software side - notice how they don’t much mention any of Sun’s other software particularly (Solaris? but then who cares about Solaris). I wonder if they’ll be interested in integrating LWJGL.
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hmm, I am curious… is the whole “worlds most popular programming language” thing their GOAL, or how it is now?
I like the goals they’re stating; they at least show good intentions. I hope they can pull it off.
Change is always scary/difficult, but it’s not always for the worst.
And Java continues to be OSS, yay!
;D
[quote]Invest in and revitalize Java Developer Community
with best of breed Java Technology and more
participatory community process
[/quote]
Interesting…
Reads like marketing material.
“Invest”, “Revitalize”, “Best” :
Aye, I can’t imagine why people are getting excited and/or hopeful about this. This is just marketing BS put out to keep the shareholders (and those who watch the share prices) happy. This won’t reflect their actual intentions or plans in any way, shape or form.
Can we just wait and see for actual moves from Oracle? I mean, we can assume a LOT of things until they announce something concrete. On a side note, they announced that they want to boost Java’s performance. That’s a great news!
Yeah, because the only thing that was stopping Sun was that they didn’t care about performance. :
Or, maybe Oracle’s marketing department are well aware of the myth of “Java is slow”, and see a change of company as the perfect time to announce that they’re going to “fix” it.
Given the fact that all of Oracle’s middleware is written in Java, I believe their intent is sincere.
I know it’s not really related to the topic, but I just wanted to say that I hate seeing red everywhere Oracle has changed previously Sun’s websites. Like on java.com, the flash red is horrible! The previous color scheme was much more friendly. That red color feel SO MUCH corporate.
Let us be blunt and talk facts.
Oracle’s actions around the acquisition of Sun/Java have told us a few things:
- They are interested in what Java is doing for their product line.
- They are not interested in what Java is doing for anyone else. (OK, too bold of a statement, but they only care enough so everyone will continue to use Java, which in the end will benefit their product line).
They must understand that by acquiring the largest programming language in the world it doesn’t come free. It inherits a lot of responsibilities and obligations.
Now ChrisM is leaving. JOGL team gone. And other end-user/desktop application/game-oriented teams. These are their actions, and they speak for themselves.
Clearly, if their intentions were to focus on this aspect of the language, they would have promoted ChrisM to vice president or something 
… and made the whole team of talent around this aspect of the language a lot larger, not reduce it to zero.
This is just how I see it.
Let’s put things into perspective. The game industry is larger than the movie industry. Games require a programming language. Java is the most popular programming language. Oracle does what to endorse game programming in Java?
But we will see. The future is never too certain.
I’m not seeing any proof he’s fired? If he wanted to leave, there wouldn’t be much Oracle could do, even if they had the best intentions…
Hopefully Oracle’s Java strategy involves making Jogl a core library again.
Jogl probably became a victim of Sun’s bad financies. They really didn’t want it in the first place so it was so easy for them to sack it when the going got tough. One can only hope Oracle brings it back in or at least gives it full official support as open source. It’s totally stupid and a misery that Java doesn’t have a solid and dependable OpenGL binding.
We will in coming months, and probably years, see where Oracle is taking Java. Current status is, at best, in a state of uncertainty due to the merger.
I’ll be willing to bet that Oracle’s attention isn’t towards end-user desktop applications and gaming.
They said they will agressively (?) push Java towards the mobile market (J2SE, not J2ME) because that’s where the big bucks are.
If Oracle goes after the mobile market with Java it’s good news for OpenGL. Then they definately must support OpenGL ES and by doing that the binding infrastructure would be in place and they could add on full OpenGL with little extra cost.