Oracle cooks up free and premium JVMs

To programmers, Sun seemed earnest about its intentions. Thats why we adopted its Platform. Could anyone name one guy like James Gosling in Oracle ? Didn't thinks so.<p>With Oracle, everything they do with Java seems to be slimy. Suing Google, JCP elections ( Hologic ?? ). premium for JVM . I fear this trend is to continue.<p>There are those who think that Oracle would continue to invest in Open JDK and continue to evolve it. I am sure they also believe that MySQl has an even brighter future ahead of it.<p>The unfortunate sideffect is that cool new languages like Scala and Clojure could end up as collateral damage as JVM is no longer seen as a viable and open platform.<p>I just might have to bite the bullet and learn me some Haskell after all !! Or GO programming language.

I have no problem with them releasing a commercial JVM with extra bells and whistles and middleware - most people don't need that anyway, and the few who do are more than willing to pay.<p>But they had <i>better</i> not nerf OpenJDK relative to what it can do now.

I really wonder 5 years from now what will be the impact of all this. It seems that Oracle's strategy is to squeeze out every bit of penny from the assets acquired from Sun, which is fine I guess, but I think they are taking it too far.<p>I am starting not to trust Java,MySQL and all other products, they really give me the impression that these will all be commercial-only.

I wonder if Apple's decision to deprecate Java on Mac was based on these plans.

Just after announcing that IBM will be working with them on OpenJDK

I think people are reading too much into this. Redhat has RHEL and Fedora, there is Jboss Community Edition, and JBoss Professional edition.<p>Nothing is nerfed, in fact the 'premium' offerings are usually behind the free versions in terms of features, but they do offer better management, upgrade options, etc.

As much as I believe that Oracle squandered a unique opportunity to generate a lot of good will without much cost, this is not all bad news.<p>If I read this correctly the jRocket VM will be part of the OpenJDK and hence be open source.

JRockit was already a premium JVM.<p>OpenJDK was already free.<p>This isn't really an announcement, per se, but what I like about it is that it means they're going to continue working on JRockit (that they got from BEA's acquisition).<p>I've seen gains of over 100% using JRockit with Weblogic, which I also worried might fall by the wayside with Oracle's acquisition.<p>I'm still not 100% sure on which way Webcenter is headed, and what exactly it's based on (as I'm not in that particular business anymore) -- but hopefully it scrapped all the aging AquaLogic code that BEA was still peddling as 'cutting edge'.

Oracle doesn't do fremium.<p>All their evil aside, you gotta respect their "FU, pay me" attitude.