WHEN OpenWorld 2010 kicked off, host Oracle Corp was sailing through some “bad weather.” Java application developers were anxious over what would become of the open-source programming language now that Sun Microsystems is controlled by the database giant.
James Gosling, the father of Java even called on software developers to wear T-shirts with “Java, just free it” on the front, to remind Oracle boss Larry Ellison of his pledge to set Java free at the JavaOne developer conference that ran concurrently with OpenWorld in San Francisco this year.
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