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As a result of its acquisition of Sun, Oracle now has control over Java, and, to put it bluntly, there doesn’t seem to be any shortage of people who are concerned with the situation. So a lot of folks have taken to making different recommendations about how to respond.
Ray Wang, a vice president with Forrester Research, told Ed Scannell, “I think it would be a good idea if Oracle set aside Java as a foundation and had someone like [Sun co-founder] Scott McNealy run it. That way, people would know it is safe and that there will continue to be an ecosystem supporting it, so one vendor can’t dominate it.”
And there are certainly a number of other individuals who could participate in such a power-sharing arrangement, too.
Or another idea is to just have a more trusted corporation do the honors. Serdar Yegulalp wrote, “I’d rather see IBM take up custody of Java completely and for real — not merely as a response to what will probably happen to it in Oracle’s hammy hands (cheery pronouncements notwithstanding), but as a way to keep it on track for real.”
Oracle hasn’t exactly agreed to any of this, though. Java professionals may need to make their feelings known in a big way if they want to see the programming language properly cared for.
Topics: Java, Web Development
