James Gosling leaves Oracle

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Post by past » Sat, Apr 10, 2010, 10:46 AM UTC

James Gosling leaves Oracle
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Re: James Gosling leaves Oracle

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Post by prog » Sat, Apr 10, 2010, 11:18 AM UTC

Can anyone involved in or close to the Java/OpenJDK comment on what this might mean for Java/JDK/JVM?

Re: James Gosling leaves Oracle

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Post by jacktang » Sat, Apr 10, 2010, 11:19 AM UTC

Will Gosling join in IBM?

Re: James Gosling leaves Oracle

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Post by bitdiddle » Sat, Apr 10, 2010, 11:20 AM UTC

No surprise here. It's too bad the IBM/Sun talks broke down, I think it would have been a much better marriage.

Re: James Gosling leaves Oracle

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Post by axod » Sat, Apr 10, 2010, 11:22 AM UTC

prog wrote: post #2

Can anyone involved in or close to the Java/OpenJDK comment on what this might mean for Java/JDK/JVM?

Unless they log into all machines running java and break them, why does it particularly matter? What's the worry here?

Re: James Gosling leaves Oracle

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Post by prog » Sat, Apr 10, 2010, 11:26 AM UTC

axod wrote: post #5

prog wrote: post #2

Can anyone involved in or close to the Java/OpenJDK comment on what this might mean for Java/JDK/JVM?

Unless they log into all machines running java and break them, why does it particularly matter? What's the worry here?

I am just wondering how involved Gosling is in JDK (in terms of roadmap, new features and such) now a days ... or is it primarily driven by the community?

Re: James Gosling leaves Oracle

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Post by bitdiddle » Sat, Apr 10, 2010, 11:31 AM UTC

jacktang wrote: post #3

Will Gosling join in IBM?

that's a thought, he'd fit in very well at T.J. Watson

Re: James Gosling leaves Oracle

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Post by rbanffy » Sat, Apr 10, 2010, 11:44 AM UTC

prog wrote: post #6

axod wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless they log into all machines running java and break them, why does it particularly matter? What's the worry here?

I am just wondering how involved Gosling is in JDK (in terms of roadmap, new features and such) now a days ... or is it primarily driven by the community?

I don't think he has a close BDFL-style involvement with the Java SDK or standard library. From what I can observe, Java is, and has been, committee-driven since about 2000.

And Gosling is too expensive to write code. His time is much better used in conferences, motivating developers.

Re: James Gosling leaves Oracle

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Post by rbanffy » Sat, Apr 10, 2010, 11:45 AM UTC

bitdiddle wrote: post #4

No surprise here. It's too bad the IBM/Sun talks broke down, I think it would have been a much better marriage.

That would mean the death of SPARC. How could this be good?

Well... It's better than Microsoft, I guess. The thought of a "Windows 7 Server for SPARC Enterprise Edition Plus" is frightening.

Re: James Gosling leaves Oracle

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Post by zandorg » Sat, Apr 10, 2010, 1:04 PM UTC

jacktang wrote: post #3

Will Gosling join in IBM?

Google seems the best fit with people like Vint Cerf there.