Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: A very dark day indeed :-( Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 20:18:26 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <960ef14f-1fa8-43df-aca9-c6425d65cb70@googlegroups.com> <30f0b573-b0b4-4d0d-ba73-c66e1742502d@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ANasIS7Js9OyLQwgloeBLQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:33734 On 2/8/2016 11:04 PM, maherrj@googlemail.com wrote: > I hope Java manages to retain its server-base but why that necessitated the murder of Java on the client escapes me :-( I don't think it is accurate to say that Oracle is murdering it. Oracle is running a business, so they produce what customers want. Demand for Java on desktop and embedded in browser is very. So in reality the users are telling Oracle to stop investing in it. Arne