Java Thriving in Oracle's hands
- by Tori Wieldt
IDC has published a Technology Assessment of Oracle's
        stewardship of Java titled "The State of Java: Two and a Half
        Years After the Acquisition." The overall IDC opinion is that
        Java under Oracle's stewardship is thriving.   
  Report highlights include:  
   
    The successful delivery of Java SE 7, which had been stalled at Sun Microsystems 
    Articulation of realistic road maps for Java EE 7 and Java SE 8 
    The healthy growth of the Java ecosystem 
    The decisiveness with which Oracle handled the Apache
          Harmony dispute 
    Key vendors joining the OpenJDK including IBM, Apple, and SAP 
    More and more programming languages being hosted on the Java Virtual Machine(JVM)  
    Java's role in major computing trends including Mobile,
          Cloud, Big Data and Social 
   
  You
        can access the full report here (PDF).