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Sun is no more. Oracle has been given the green light by regulatory authorities for it's acquisition of Sun. Now Oracle's plans for Sun are a bit more clearer.

Executives at Oracle have give a big thumbs up to Java, the programming language. It's great news. Java is one of the most popular languages out there. It's the crown jewel of Sun and will be the jewel in Oracle now.  Thomas Kurian, executive vice president for product development, expressed ambitions "to enhance and extend the reach of the Java programming model to support emerging application development paradigms."

Bad news for Java cloud though. Java Cloud was to sell space or processing to users, much like Amazon does. It's not a big deal to see it lost. As clouds become more prevalent, they could be the natural progression of computers anyway. Selling cloud space might be like asking a desktop PC user to pay for an external hard drive. Only some will need them and maybe the huge investment required to get the cloud up and running isn't a smart investment.

JavaFX was signaled out as one of the area's within Java that is to receive special attention. With the ability to build rich multimedia applications, it's certainly looks promising for the future.

Netbeans looks safe too. Although it has competed with Oracles JDeveloper in the past, Oracle said they planned to retain NetBeans as a lightweight development tool. Could this be hinting that netbeans will be phased out over time? And JDeveloper take the lead role as an IDE?