I'll be blogging all next week from JavaOne (including hopefully an interview with Larry Ellison). And the number one question I think all of us have is - what's the future of Java? There are a ton of conference sessions and that's a really good sign. While the JavaOne keynote is the day after the Oracle World keynote, it does include Larry Ellison (good sign). Oracle talks about keeping Java open (good sign), and then immediately sues Google over their use of it (bad sign).
The interesting question is what to look for to figure out what Oracle truly intends to do with Java. Sun was superb about making Java of benefit to the entire community, but that was to Sun's detriment and they're no longer in business in part because they couldn't figure out how to make Java profitable. Oracle is very good at making products profitable. And so how they handle Java will certainly change. All of us who live in the Java biosphere need to figure out how it's going to change, and how that will affect our business.
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