Oracle rejects comments for firing Java promoter

Oracle laying off its Java evangelists? Er, no comment, says OracleSoon-to-be-redundant chap in pink slip slip on Facebook

4 Sep at 23:04, Simon Sharwood

Oracle appears to is making redundancies in the ranks of its Java evangelists team.

One of the evangelists, Simon Ritter, have taken to Facebook to say: "I ' ve heard it said so you should try something new Every day. Yesterday I thought I ' d see what it is like to be made redundant. "

It's not a hard-to-see what Oracle might decide to dispense with Java evangelists. While popular, the technology is mature and many developers has moved on to other things. It is not a exactly in favor with many Web developers. There may isn't therefore be enormous upside in continuing to promote Java, although the technology was hardly likely to Emer GE from a downturn without evangelists.

Nor is it Java likely to does well in the Internet of things, a market that looks tailor-made for the technology and which Orac Le have, like every and other vendor, proclaimed it would pursue successfully.

Java consultant Kirk Pepperdine have taken to Twitter with the following missive:

We ' ve asked Oracle to explain the situation, and we were told: "We decline comment." Perhaps that's because, at the time of writing, the US was the hours away from clocking off for a three-day Labor day Weeke nd. Those shown the door by Oracle probably won ' t enjoy the holiday very much. ?

Oracle rejects comments for firing Java promoter