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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by IloveHN84 on Sunday July 29, 2018 @06:44AM (#17637409)
It's enough to see how they're killing Java's ecosystem, moving to the 6-months release cycle.

There's still a huge amount of companies / public businesses running software based on Java 5 or 6 out there, just saying..

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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by manigandham on Sunday July 29, 2018 @10:14PM (#17641582)
That's partly on companies too. The fact that software marches forward has been clearly understood for decades and keeping things updated should be part of IT/Dev responsibilities, not something put off forever.
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