Gosling Quits Oracle

Filed in archive Business on April 18, 2010

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Java creator James Gosling has resigned from Oracle -- and not, apparently, on particularly good terms.

"He resigned from the company earlier this month and has not taken up any other position," according to TechWhack. "Gosling said, 'As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good.'"

"Gosling is known as the inventor of the Java programming language in 1994," writes Katonda's Swapnil Bhartiya. "He created the original design of Java and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine."

"No doubt every major Java vendor on Earth will be calling Gosling this week trying to get him onboard," writes InternetNews' Sean Michael Kerner. "A tech luminary like Gosling doesn't become available all that often."

"The news cannot be a total surprise given the very different cultures of Sun and Oracle, but losing such a high profile figure is unlikely to cheer up Larry Ellison," writes The Register's John Oates. "What is less certain is where this leaves the development of Java now that it's lost one of its loudest supporting voices."