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Based on Gosling's blog, "enrage" might be a correct characterization ("an awful lot [ of my time ] has been taken up talking to people about life at Oracle. They need a place to vent, and I try to be a good listener.", that's from about a month ago and the whole short item is worth reading: http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/escaped_from_reality)

One very simple thing we do know about is that many/most?/nearly all??? of Sun's software people have seen their salaries significantly reduced. Even if this didn't hit directly people at Gosling's level it would substantially change a whole lot of things and certainly sends a number of negative messages.

It's not completely grim, the Maxine (JVM in Java) research group seems to be very productive and not losing principles, but they're working on an area that Oracle considers to be critical (JVMs in general and JVMs on top of VMs in particular).