Oracle To Monetize Java VM

jtotheh writes "According to the Register, Oracle is going to make two tiers of Java Virtual Machine — a free one and a premium paid one. 'Adam Messinger, Oracle vice president of development, told QCon that Oracle plans to offer a "premium" edition of the JDK in addition to the open-source JDK. Both, it seems, will be based on a converged JRockit VM and the Hotspot JVM from Sun Microsystems. The converged JVM will be released under the OpenJDK project. ... Messinger didn't explain how the premium JVM would differ [from] the free version, but the premium edition will likely see performance tuning and tie-ins to Oracle's middleware.'"

Comments

Wow...

[vikisonline]

Wow they want to make money but it will end up just killing java... Its a crappy language anyways. There are many nice cross-platform c++ libraries like QT still. Hopefully Nokia wont go the way of Sun. One more reason for me to hate oracle more.

Re:I don't get it

[havokca]

Killing Java is NOT a war crime... more like a community service.

Re:Some insight from one of the bigger customers..

[bornagainpenguin]

One thing to remember - our bank gets and stays profitable because it pushes a lot of IT outside to third-parties (offshore developers are *much* cheaper than in London and NewYork)

Fuck your offshore developers and fuck your bank for reducing the local standard of living by that much more. Local programmers in both London and New York gotta eat too you know...

But it's _NOT_ better

[IBitOBear]

Jave was released under GPL (eventually) and under an open source-ish license before that. C-pound has never been released under any license but Microsoft's "it's all mine and we can sue you any time we want" license.

The fact that Microsoft knows it is wisest to let you get a code base together based on Mono before they swoop in with and pull an Oracle America on your ass is obvious. And if anybody had ever really taken C-pound mainstream enough to be a real competitor to Java, they would have don so already.

Us open source weasels have been warning you for years. It was dumb to set your hair on fire by using Java, now you are suggesting putting the fire out with a sledge hammer by switching to Mono...

Re:Oracle is doing everything they can to fuck up

[modmans2ndcoming]

try looking at the freaking link moron. Very little is missed in Mono.

java dies....

[smash]

.... and nothing of value was lost.

A neat idea, back in the mid 90s of "write once, run anywhere" that ended up so horribly broken that it became "write once, debug/rewrite everywhere" only with shittier performance than native, recompiled code.

Seriously, if Oracle kill java with fire, I'll be ecstatic.