Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft
I highly doubt these Linux games will amount to much for Microsoft, but it&#x27;s fun to watch.<p>Their fundamental problem is (which they realize pretty well i seems) that they have lost developer&#x27;s mind share. .NET may be a fine ecosystem and C# may be a great language but in all practical senses it is Windows-only. All these Mono&#x2F;open source CLR games are not even the slightest blip on the radar for a practical day-to-day backend operations running cross platform (which is mostly Linux, but Windows as well).<p>MS is lagging behind the Java ecosystem by 20 years. It&#x27;s fun to watch them scramble and try this and that, but I suspect that the train has left the station long ago.<p>I think Oracle Linux has been a joke. I don&#x27;t know anyone in their right mind using that. RH or CentOS, yes. Oracle Linux? Most IT professionals will pay extra to have nothing to do with Oracle. Heck, I am considering risking moving to OpenJDK, just so I have nothing of Oracle in sight.