Is Oracle Abandoning Java? | Linux Today

Is Oracle Abandoning Java?

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Christine Hall
Oct 7, 2015

This seems to fit with news from early September, when reports began to surface on Twitter, Reddit and Facebook that Oracle was giving the ax to Java evangelists. The fact that these layoffs were coming less than two months before Oracle’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco was considered quite disturbing by the Java community.

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