Oracle bought Java with Sun Microsystems in 2010 butwe are told by people familiar with the matter. The database giant is understood to have hired 20 individuals globally this year, whose sole job is the pursuit of businesses in breach of their Java licenses. Huge sums of money are at stake, with customers on the hook for multiple tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. While that case isit remains oracle java se advanced be seen if the latest push to monetize Java is a response to that loss or part of a broader strategy on Oracle's part. But after acquiring Sun in 2010, why did Oracle's License Management Services wait a full six years. Trump himself was a Democrat from August 2001 to September 2009, eight years. Being a self-interested opportunist of no fixed allegiance makes Ellison nearly a Trump clone except, more competent business-wise. If you write portable C code, then it's basically impossible for Microsoft to sue anyone that provides you with a platform on which to run it. Oracle has shown that this is not true for Java. I understand the C has some advantages over Java, but as I don't use either this is just second- or third-hand information. I could understand utf-8 or utf-32, but utf-16 is a garbage choice made for historical reasons. This article give me yet another reason to avoid Java. Most computing devices sold in the last few years run Android, and are therefore programmed primarily in Java. As a result we now have oracle java se advanced whole new generation of programmers raised on Java. Let me be a bit more explicit, since you had trouble understanding the more diplomatic language: There are 3 million Java programmers who aren't that bright. They won't be able to easily switch to a completely different way of doing things. Speaking of the fact that many people aren't that bright and have trouble understanding new things. That's a very concise way to refute your points. Larry must want to buy a new island. I remember when I was working in a large bank that went thru a merger of equals many years back. To put that in perspective it was a few times larger than the then largest contract which was with Microsoft involving every windows desktop, laptop, windows server, office and other Microsoft stuff. Naturally he ordered the bank to completely get rid of Sybase within 3 years. After 3 years, Sybase was almost completely gone except for a few trading systems that had major problems and risks moving. Anyway you screw with your customers enough, they will get rid of you. Even big banks which are dinosaurs when it comes to technology change will not be held ransom. Actually, Sun originally aimed to create an oracle java se advanced ecosystem of a platform from Java. It still seems that Oracle does not want to give up that the Database Engine is application and not just a data store. The database is just that a data store not the application. The database is just that a data store not the application. Oracle also sells an enterprise application suite and they are the most gawdawfully unusable, clumsy, slow applications I have ever had the misfortune to be subjected to. Oracle application superpower: throwing away user's data part way through an unbelievably tortuous chain of slow loading screens. According to most developers who know both C and Java, C is the better one. That's like saying you prefer drinking the water from the Pacific ocean over water from the Atlantic ocean. For th emost part, both languages are the same. C programmers will say they prefer C oracle java se advanced Java, and the reasons they give are usually syntax-sugar related. Properties are kind of cool, I agree, but that misses the point of the purpose of Java: Java exists to make things very simple, so that even incompetent programmers can work in it without messing things up too badly. By adding extra features, although they are fun features, C messes that up, allowing programmers to do really stupid things. That's not the worst insult I have for C programmers, but I ought to keep it polite. Java is lagging behind C for years now on every new features: enum 2004 vs 2002generic 2004 vs 2002anonymous function, lambda 2011 vs 2008. The compiler is open source so the whole framework. Microsoft repeatedly said that they want interoperability with other implementations such as mono. During that time Java user get sue and now fine. I don't think we can say both C and Java are the same at all. Java and C are protected by the same kinds of licenses, so you're deluded if you think the kinds of things happening to Java users can't happen to you. Can you cite those licenses. Yeah, notice that it's an actual license, with legal weight, not some kind of novel legal concept that has never been tried in court. You're better off with the license, legally speaking, than some vague 'promise. They can still sue you, or they can change the terms at any time. You have no idea what you are talking about. There may indeed be questions to ask about the coverage and durability of Microsoft's promises, but such questions lie well beyond your limited comprehension of the situation. You have no idea what you are talking about. What legal cases have addressed this question before. The real truth is you have no clue what you are talking about, because 'promises' not to sue are paper thin. A good lawyer can always find a way around 'promises'. At which point do you need to pay for Java. You don't need to pay for Java. Java is open source, and there's some question of whether a language is even copyrightable at all. This is the oracle java se advanced as it's been for a long time now. It was something our legal people couldn't countenance, resulting in a Java ban. Not a good way to run your business. I don't see Oracle having any long term future. Nobody would make a new deployment of any of their products. In my opinion Oracle is oracle java se advanced a better all round product than nearly all the alternatives. That's not enough any more though. The prohibitive costs, poor support, threats, and contempt for customers are insurmountable barriers. Like Sun, I think Oracle will vanish in the long run. Ironically, he slipped on a banana peel on the courthouse steps, and as he fell, he dropped the mantle of 'Litigious Bastards'. Larry was walking by, picked it up, and tried it on. It was still warm and comfy. So he brought it back home, had the tailors in the licensing department do some alterations, and now he's going to put it on as everyday wear, just like Zuckerberg and his hoodies. Now, off to bed with you all. Just remove anything Java from your systems. Seriously, when the owner of a technology starts getting like this, there's no clawing back custom. Just start planning to leave the entire platform now. Because the situation isn't going to get any better, even if you do win a lawsuit on reasonableness grounds. Dynamic languages are just a poor fit for certain applications. It's only a marginal advantage. The real problem with JavaScript is that it has a single numerical type, and that type is a stupid choice. You can't do 64-bit integer arithmetic in JavaScript in a remotely sane way. It seemed to make sense at the time, when Livescript was just a quick hack for simple dynamic web glue. But the fact that this gaping wound made it through multiple upgrade and standardization cycles has to be a major embarrassment for all concerned. Dynamic languages are just a poor fit for certain applications. Different languages have different uses. There might be a few places where Java is the best choice - but not many. What a grinding mess that was. And this was a Fortune 500 company with deep pockets and no fear of over spending. Java looks easy but encourages bad design principals. It's a good article, but he does not make the argument that you say. He says that teaching C first filters out a lot of bad programmers, not makes good programmers. These are not quite the same thing. If a school wants to make good programmers oracle java se advanced they shouldn't teach C first as it is a horrifically bad language for learning. Joel makes the argument that it is good for testing ability. Python is actually a good first language for learning. Maybe C as a second language to learn about memory and pointers. Pro I agree with you. There is a language called C, and there is another called C++. They share some syntax but not alland one is occasionally and incorrectly considered to be a subset of the other. They are very different languages, and using them proficiently requires a completely different mindset oracle java se advanced the programmer. C is all right, but not really great. Still, you can get quick results with C, so teach a month or two of C and then switch to something like a simple assembler it'll have to be the assembler for a pseudo-machine rather than a real one, as the real machines have gotten too complex.
