[lomegor]

I believe that the structure of the language helps translating OO design to code. As OO is the preferred way of enterprises to describe their products (which may not always be the best way), they tend to think Java will make the product better.

I think Java right now is easily understandable by blue collars (not the code, but the architecture and the design part). It may not be the right choice, but big companies try to avoid the unknown and they tend to think that things they can understand (OO being an example) are better than the other options.