Sun were giving all their products away for free and wasn’t making any money. To help out Oracle buys Sun. At first I thought this was excellent news because both companies have exceptional products, but neither have many flagship products (note flagship) that directly compete with each other. So it seems like a good mix.
This was until I received…
In short, Project Kenai is closing and taking my open source sf-library along with it. BOOOO!
So I’ve had to move the whole project across to Google Code. But it has me annoyed because Project Kenai is clearly prettier then Google Code:
However what really is quite worrying is that the JOGL project (Java OpenGL bindings) will also be closing along with Project Kenai and there are no plans to move it back to it’s old home java.net or to anywhere new (but there are some custom branches around on github). But it annoys me as yet another example of how Java, a very mature and successful language, is failing to capture the desktop market. I did a blog post a month or two ago mentioning WebGL which will allow you to do 3D in the browser, yet you’ve been able to do it for years with Java. It’s crazy it doesn’t get more support for this kind of thing from Sun,.. sorry, Oracle.
BOOOOOO!