by joelg236

It’s pretty evident that Java has not been the cash cow that Oracle had hoped it would be. Certainly, their SCO style patent infringement suit against Google didn’t produce the easy billions they’d envisioned. If Oracle doesn’t want to spend the effort and cash necessary to keep Java developed and properly patched, there’s no crime in that if they just get rid of it. As it’s doubtful they’d ever find a big bucks buyer, I’d suggest just handing it over to the Apache folks as they did with OpenOffice. In that case, further development will probably stop, but maybe IBM or someone will step up to the plate and keep it patched in their spare time.