Longtime O'Reilly editor Mike Loukides has posted a long editorial about the Java community and its direction:
> Since Oracle's acquisition of Sun, we've been wondering who will lead the > Java community. What sort of leadership is needed, and who will fill the > shoes that, for better or for worse, Sun has occupied since Java was first > released? > > First, does the Java community need a leader? Significant portions of it are > doing just fine without any "leadership," most notably the people working on > big data. Their attitude seems to be "have JVM, will do great stuff, don't > bother me with the politics." And granted, the politics of the Java world > over the past decade have been worse than tiresome. But everyone in the Java > community relies on a JVM, languages, and libraries, and none of the smaller > players have the capability of maintaining and developing these themselves. > What happens to the community if the JVM stagnates? http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/java-community-oracle-google-vmware.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
