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Java is only as stable as Sun Microsystems (SUNW)

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sbergman27

Jul 03, 2004
3:45 PM EDT 		In case anyone hasn't noticed, Sun is in bad financial shape, has just made a $2B deal, (Errm, settlement, terms undisclosed) with Microsoft Corp, and there is every indication that Scott McNealy has lost control of his company. (Just read the last year's worth of Sun's public statements. Sun Microsystems is the very definition of "fragmentation" if you ask me.) Just how stable a custodian of Java does that make them? JCP or no, they could have a change of heart, reorganize their business strategies to better leverage their core competencies, or get bought out.

Frankly, if I had a big investment in the stability of Java as a platform (I don't), I'd be quaking in my boots right now.

Open Sourcing Java can only improve the stability of its long term prospects. Otherwise, expect that one way or another, it will quietly fade away, for reasons totally divorced from the technical.

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