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The email, sent to InfoWorld on Tuesday by a former high-ranking Java official, claimed to feature details from inside Oracle. It said the company was becoming a cloud company, competing with Salesforce, and ���Java has no interest to them anymore.��� The subject line cited ���Java ��� planned obsolescence.���
Oracle is not interested in empowering its competitors and doesn���t want to share innovation, the email further alleges. The company is slimming down Java EE (Enterprise Edition), but it also doesn���t want anyone else to work on Java or Java EE and is sidelining the JCP (Java Community Process). ���They have a winner-take-all mentality and they are not interested in collaborating,��� said the email. ���Proprietary product work will be done on WebLogic, and there���ll be a proprietary microservices platform.��� WebLogic is the Java application server Oracle acquired when it bought BEA Systems in 2008.