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by elygre 2117 days ago
Oracle is all the hate, but when it comes to java, Oracle really got the show rolling again. Prior to Oracle, little happened. After Oracle, a lot is happening.
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Oracle haters seem to disregard that Oracle was the only company bothering to actually make an offer and keep it, without that offer, everyone would be busy maintaining Java 6 codebases, or porting code to something else.
IBM?
IBM withdrew their acquisition offer shortly thereafter.