The January rumours were true and on Friday Oracle laid off the core talent from the Solaris and SPARC teams, in effect finally killing what they had left of Sun Microsystems. When Oracle aquired Sun, there were a lot of valuable assets, each of which, except VirtualBox, has been squandered and abandoned. Simon Phipps enumerates the main ones and what happened to them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 06 2017, @07:27AM
Which parts?
Desktop Java was stillborn. Browser Java has been dead so long that even the banks have mostly caught on. Oracle even sued Google to kill mobile Java. The only thing left is server-side Java which has the advantage of being so slow that you need a Sparc cluster for it to be useful, which is why it's been kept alive - to sell more Sparc machines.
With Oracle killing off Sparc, there is no point in keeping the remains of Java alive.