That's a
shame, since Oracle seems to have about as much interest in
being the custodian of Java as they have in development of the Sparc
processor. So all that Java training may be for nought.
Huh? They've dramatically increased the pace and funding of SPARC
development and are pushing it pretty hard, much harder than Sun did.
At least as of my last information, which admittedly was a year ago.
Has their stance changed?
They're big on SPARC because it fits well with Larry Ellison's drive to
vendor lock-in. If everyone's on black boxes running Oracle chips and Oracle
databases on Oracle operating systems (read: SPARC, Oracle, Solaris), then
Larry can bend them over the barrel and continue to extract money from every
orifice without risk of IBM stealing them away.
Java doesn't fit into that strategy.
Mind you, IBM does some of this with AIX/POWER/DB2 (and even more so with
System i and z/Architecture), but Larry seems particularly seized with this
dream when you watch the SPARC tech roadmap pressers. HP failed at this with
PA-RISC, and then they failed again with x64, but they're happy to blame
Intel for that.
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