[jc-user] Re: Openjdk 6 future by redhat

[Frans Thamura]

+1

so this news will relax several people that still use J6 in their
environment. -> several my clients always asking and "busy" is their
answer to upgrade, and still untrust with j7 for their deployment,
yes, a reflect of IBM salesman here, that said we are testing bla bla
bla...

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On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Bruno F. Souza <bruno at javaman.com.br> wrote:
>
> On 09/03/2013, at 12:31, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yep was sort of in officially announced at FOSDEM iirc - nothing wrong with
> it <shrug>
>
>
> Even more then that, I think this is a wonderful thing!
> RedHat has been an active participant on the OpenJDK project for a long
> time, and the
> more responsibility other participants get the better off the project is.
>
> I totally agree with RedHat's stance that an open source project is not
> simply abandoned,
> those that feel the need that the project keep going should jump in and make
> sure the
> project is continued. And note that this is not a bash on Oracle: the beauty
> of open
> source is that different people have different goals and objectives. It is
> AMAZING
> that OpenJDK has evolved to the point where this can actually happen.
>
> Recently we saw a similar move with the Play framework, where a group of
> people
> decided that Play 1 was still a worthwhile framework, and basically
> continued the
> development of that version, although most of the developers have moved on
> to
> Play 2. This is how open source is supposed to work!
>
> So, this is open source at it's finest, and I'm extremely excited to see
> this happening
> on OpenJDK. Great sign and congratulations to RedHat for taking this
> responsibility,
> the Java community will be better because of it. And, my thanks go also to
> Oracle
> for creating a real open source project where this kind of thing can
> actually happen!
>
> Bruno.
>
>
> On Saturday, 9 March 2013, Frans Thamura wrote:
>>
>> Anyone read this?
>>
>> How the ecosystem between openjdk.java.net and redhat's commitment..
>>
>>
>> http://m.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/red-hats-java-leadership-grows-oracles-wanes-214137?mm_ref=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.infoworld.com%252Ft%252Fjava-programming%252Fred-hats-java-leadership-grows-oracles-wanes-214137%26h%3DMAQFIs7pQOJQXn0qMAAA%26s%3D1
>>
>> Frans Thamura
>> Meruvian
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>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
>
> Bruno.
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