Our ERP here at work is all in java.  RPITA and full of surprises with
respect java version and what will work and what no longer works.

They also do a command line call for all SQL data.  I was pretty impressed
with that, to be honest.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Dec 20, 2016, at 2:05 PM, Stephen Russell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > java was OS fifteen years ago just like python.  Oracle bought Sun 10
> years
> > ago.
>
> It may have been "open source", but it was never free software. Free
> software lets you do with it whatever you like. For example, if Oracle
> somehow bought the Python Software Foundation (not very likely), nothing
> would prevent you from taking your copy of Python and making your own fork.
> There is simply zero possibility of it ever becoming tied up by some entity.
>
> "Open source" doesn't mean anything if you can't use that source for your
> own needs.
>
> -- Ed Leafe
>
>
>
>
>
>
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