And also thank you, for giving many companies the necessary push for them to realize Oracle's JDK was not the only game in town and many others could deliver a perfectly fine JDK.
There are few things worse in this business than being labeled an "unreliable partner" and Oracle is being seen as just that even at big companies. Oracle's wisdom to pull this kind of bullshit is already legendary, the Open Solaris train-wreck, the MySQL writing on the wall, the OpenOffice implosion, the JDK shoot-in-foot, those samurais at Oracle's board sure know what they're doing..
Oh yeah I forgot Hudson, maybe that one wins 1st place as far as shamelessness is concerned, but because the fork was so swift and Jenkins took over very few people even remember Hudson.
Virtualbox was poisoned to take over the whole VM desktop "business" and then.. it stayed there. Not dead but not much vitality going on.
Oh gosh, I remember someone briefly mentioning Hudson in late 2015 (as a long-dead precursor to Jenkins) and that was the first I heard of it. I can't believe it was maintained until 2016.
> Oracle's JDK was not the only game in town and many others could deliver a perfectly fine JDK
Which are almost all just tiny changes on OpenJDK, developed almost solely by Oracle. So who actually deliver a perfectly fine JDK? Also, what do you even mean by JDK shoot-in-foot?
And also thank you, for giving many companies the necessary push for them to realize Oracle's JDK was not the only game in town and many others could deliver a perfectly fine JDK.
There are few things worse in this business than being labeled an "unreliable partner" and Oracle is being seen as just that even at big companies. Oracle's wisdom to pull this kind of bullshit is already legendary, the Open Solaris train-wreck, the MySQL writing on the wall, the OpenOffice implosion, the JDK shoot-in-foot, those samurais at Oracle's board sure know what they're doing..