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This dovetails interestingly with a recent IDC report on Oracle and Java, which says that Oracle has a chance to clean up the poor relationship Sun had with the Java community, towards the end.

Project Babylon would extend the reach of Java to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming.