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| Authored by: stegu on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 05:30 PM EDT |
> I'm not entirely convinced that Oracle were serious about
> coming out with their own smart phone OS. It's pretty far
> from their core business.
A lot of the existing people and projects they took over
from Sun were quite alien to Oracle's core business, and
it is not entirely improbable that they did try to keep
some of the existing momentum to make some money.
Many of those people have since been laid off or
left the company by their own accord, and many of
the former Sun Java projects have been canceled or
scaled back. Even Java itself seems to be neglected.
The recent security problems, the time it took to
fix them and the new problems the fixes introduced
speak of a Java project put on the back burner, with
Oracle making only minimal efforts to keep it alive.
Bundling the Ask Toolbar as a "suggested feature"
in the recent JRE install packages speaks of a Java
project in disarray, selling out for petty cash
instead of continuing Sun's mission to provide the
world with a relevant and "free" programming language.
Of course, Sun went down over it, so of course
Oracle will try anything to make desktop Java more
profitable, but the Ask Toolbar? I mean, really?
How much money can there be in that, and how
much annoyance does it create for their users
to have Ask set as the default search provider if
you forget to uncheck a box during a JRE install?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 10 2012 @ 05:51 PM EDT |
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