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Not sure what’s going on over at Oracle, but news on Twitter is that they just laid off (what sounds like) their entire Java Evangelist team:
Other than this article on InfoWorld there’s not much else to go on, but from various tweets from some of those involved it seems to involve Simon Ritter, Cameron Purdy, Jim Weaver and others too. That’s a lot of top Java talent. Would love to hear what’s going on at Oracle right now. Seems odd timing as well, 1 month before JavaOne?
I find this somewhat hard to believe. 12 years ago, legal action by Sun Microsystems against Microsoft halted Microsoft’s development of their own flavor of Java, which was only partially compatible with Sun’s Test Computability Kit (TCK). In order to develop an implementation of Java and compatible JVM, the license requires the developed product to pass the TCK in order to maintain cross platform compatibility of different implementations of Java.
This week Microsoft announced that it has added support to host Oracle Weblogic and Oracle databases on it’s Azure cloud, allowing developers to host Java based solutions on Microsoft’s hosted platform.
How times have changed 🙂
Oracle are hosting live webcasts for the launch of EE7 on June 12 & 13 next week – more info here.
The emergency patch from Oracle to address security vulnerabilities in Java 7 has apparently added new vulnerabilities, according to security researchers, Security Exceptions.