Cloud Computing: Abandon Java? Community says it ain’t going to happen

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Paul Krill.

It seems like nary a day goes by lately where we don’t hear of some adversity affecting Java, the venerated enterprise software platform that has been around since 1995. Just recently:

• Java has been beset by security issues, prompting calls for users to dump Java.
• Java owner Oracle has proposed a two-year delay in introducing critical technologies to the platform (aka Project Jigsaw), including the addition of modularity to standard Java and of cloud computing capabilities to enterprise Java…

So are Java’s best days behind it? Should businesses be looking to retire their Java applications and move to something else, such as Microsoft’s .Net platform? Is Java’s future to be just another exhibit in Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum?…

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