Oracle cooks up free and premium JVMs - and Oracle begins to try to cash in on Java. If it works, Java could soon be in a similar situation to .NET: the free implementations lag behind the scope of the commercial ones. What this means for alternative languages on the JVM remains to be seen - but it will certainly cause some problems. However, the JVM world is large enough and equipped with sufficient alternatives, and Oracle is not Microsoft. Therefore, this could all just be a storm in a teacup and at most affect the typical Oracle victims.