Java founder leaves Oracle

James Gosling, widely held to be the father of Java, has resigned from software giant Oracle. This comes after Sun chairman Scott McNealy and CEO Jonathan Schwartz left the company early this year.

Gosling’s resignation was published on his blog, where he said: "Yes, indeed, the rumours are true. I resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd). The hardest part is no longer being with all the great people I've had the privilege to work with over the years."

“I don't know what I'm going to do next, other than take some time off before I start job hunting."

Aside from this, Gosling has given no details as to why he is leaving the company. Speculation is growing as to why, and in the blogosphere, rumours are gathering; Sean Michael Kerner at Internet News Blog claims that Sun employees are finding it difficult to fit into Oracle smoothly.

Meanwhile, John Davidson at TopNews points out that Gosling was having increasing difficulty in accepting what he saw as the politicisation of the Java community.

Brandon Bailey on SiliconBeat simply said that Gosling’s move wasn’t surprising, but just a sign of the transition Oracle and its new acquisition Sun Microsystems is going through.

At Inatech, we’re confident that when Oracle said it would do everything it could to keep supporting Sun Microsystems end users, whilst continuing to develop new tools for them, they meant it; sometimes, to do that, new faces are needed.