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Oracle buys Sun
What do you think of that?
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Comment by Zemian Deng on April 21, 2009 at 8:50am
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I sure hope so. I hope the JDK development will surpass Sun management. I think current JDK is getting bigger and bigger with many unnecessary legacy libraries, but yet missing convenient languages features such as type inference, tail recursion, closure etc. And then Sun didn't do much to improve the Java Swing, which many developers are crying to have. I have mixed feelings about JavaFX.
With rich company like Oracle, I really hope they fuel the JDK development and take some giant leap toward the coming months.
All the best to Oracle and people who are working hard on Java.
Cheers!
PS: MySQL future seems little cloudy. I really like the DB, and hope Oracle won't kill it.
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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