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Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open Sourcing Product (infoq.com)
Kesha Williams, reporting for InfoQ (shared by numerous readers): The Java Mission Control suite of tools, also known as JMC, was open sourced by Oracle on May 3rd to much applause and excitement from the Java development community. The excitement was replaced with unease as sources reported that the entire JMC development team had been laid off. JMC is a well-known profiling and diagnostics tools suite for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) primarily targeting systems running in production. It is used by developers to gather detailed low-level information about how the JVM and the Java application are behaving. The official open source announcement came on May 5th from Marcus Hirt, a member of the Java Platform Group at Oracle. "Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who helped open source Java Mission Control in the relatively short period of time it was done in." According to Hirt, the intent behind open sourcing JMC was to provide the community with the opportunity to add new features and capabilities to the tools suite.
This is precisely the kind of product that benefits greatly from corporation / open-source collaboration. A community-centric tool that benefits with having both close ties to the official codebase, and also has a broad population of interested persons providing input, feedback, bugfixes, etc.
Oracle has bungled, and continues to bungle, both open-source in general, and Java in particular. Despite a 2016 bubble, the long-term decline in popularity of the platform is significant.
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...why about 1/3 of the Stockholm dev office was suddenly empty this week. And I had to come here to find out about it. Wow.
Yeah, but at least these developers will be able to continue their development work. They just won't be getting paid for it anymore.
It would be quite amusing to now see Oracle apply for some H-1Bs for "Java Internals Core Developers" . . .
. . . claiming that they can't find any US folks for the jobs.
I'm guessing that the Java Mission Control team somehow pissed off Larry Ellison . . . a very dangerous thing to do . . .
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Lol! If Google paid for its copyright infringement on Java, all of these people would still have their jobs.
Seems to me they're saying "You've been bitching for years that the community can do better, well here you go, knock yourselves out, we're done."
to fire the dev team after the app is built. You hire some folks to do the hard work of building it and then you hire jr code monkeys to maintain it afterwards. Video Games do this. Still, it means Oracle isn't planing any major changes to it (or it means they think they can get by with consultants).
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Oracle acquired Sun/Java for two reasons
1) People still cared about Sun at the time and it was a popular platform for running their database.
2) Java - they never gave a darn about developing further. They saw it as the next COBOL something that critical stuff was written in that would likely live on for decades. Just minimally supporting it would ensure a continuing lucrative revenue stream for years to come with no effort. Bonus points if they could con the "community" into doing a good deal of the work for them. Which is not say there have not been some good technical improvements in Java under Oracle's rule but a lot of those were why not's borrowed conceptually from other languages and stacks.
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