Red Hat takes over OpenJDK 6 leadership from Oracle

By Ashwin Ananthapadmanabhan

Red Hat takes over OpenJDK 6 leadership from Oracle

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Java is one of the most important technologies (and also one of the reason's Oracle bought Sun) yet it has a complex relationship with Oracle. It's also turning out to be one of the most insecure technologies, considering the flood of java vulnerabilities found and exploited recently.
Red Hat has played an instrumental role in Java for Linux users by starting IcedTea project whose "initial goal was to make the Java OpenJDK usable without requiring any other software that is not free software and hence make it possible to add OpenJDK to Fedora and other Linux distributions that insist on free software."
Now Red Hat is again playing an important role by taking over the maintenance of OpenJDK 6 from Oracle which decided to abandon support for it as it focuses on OpenJDK 7 and future editions.
The reason Red Hat has stepped in is that there are still a lot of users using OpenJDK and IcedTea which need to be supported in the wake of these vulnerabilities.
Craig Muzilla, vice president and general manager, Middleware, Red Hat, says that Java "...has had a profound impact on the creation and integration of technologies that have ushered us into the 21st century, shaping everything from banking and retail to transportation and research, and Red Hat is leading the charge. We want to see that continue, not only for the thousands of organizations running OpenJDK 6 and Java SE 6, but for users of future versions as well."
In addition to taking on leadership of the OpenJDK 6 community, Red Hat maintains its role in setting the future direction for the OpenJDK project as an active board member, represented by Red Hat’s long-time Java technical lead, Andrew Haley, enabling the company to continue to help drive the future of Java and of OpenJDK.
Red Hat is one true open source leader which invests a large amount of resources in developing core technologies used by the entire GNU/Linux world, it has also showed us that you can be a market leader with pure open source. The way Red Hat stepped in to maintain OpenJDK 6 shows what it takes to be a leader.

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