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by pjmlp 1669 days ago
Had Oracle not bought Sun, Java would have died in version 6, and MaximeVM would never had become GraalVM.

There weren't other buyers in town, besides IBM, which I probably would have managed it just as Oracle has, given that the trio have been around in Java world since the early days.
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rndgermandude 1668 days ago
Maybe, maybe not. Google was already heavily invested in java with Android. And lots of other places were too. If Oracle hadn't bought it, Google or one of the others might have bought java specifically from Sun. Or may have just let java die and be reborn as an "open source foundation" as they are en vogue now (which to some degree happened anyway, with the proliferation of the OpenJDK).
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pjmlp 1667 days ago
OpenJDK is developed 90% by Oracle employees, others just take it from there, there is no proliferation .
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