Oracle will provide the JVM, if steve's email is any indication.
Even if Oracle would provide java, would anybody put so much trust into Oracle, to base the future of his/her software company onto this? Apple again has proven to be unreliable.
I think, this is a serious blow either for java or for Apple itself. Probably we may have to fall back to c, fortran or delphi?
No, but I do know a lot of developers that write Java code that runs on banking infrastructure, that do.
At the last big Weblogic project I worked on, the (many) developers worked on Windows in VMs, on Windows boxes. One advantage being that we could use VM images pre-configured with Eclipse and whatnot set up just right.
Yes, because as we all know, SUN has been a bright example of RELIABILITY in regards to Java et al...
The collapse of SUN, the Swing for the Desktop/JSF/Java FX fiascoes, the Oracle takeover and the recent JCP fights, totally inspire confidence in Java...