Open Languages Are Not Required

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the last paragraph is the first one you should read in order to decide whether this editorial is worth reading. it is

"The right choice is to not worry about the state of Java's open or proprietary nature, despite some of the discussion occurring in the news today. It is not relevant to your business needs or the long term health of your enterprise software ecosystem."

It was the sentence before that which caught my eye:

"The cost of a move, in terms of training, hiring experts, rewriting entire application and tool suites, rounds of testing, and final deployment, will easily run higher than continuing to build and deploy Java applications."

so... your costs will go up; whether you end up licensing java, or switching. I'm not sure about you, but that is relevant to my business needs.

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