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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by bjord on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @12:14PM (#47589606)
it's not purely gov work—lots of legacy software (especially outside of the US) is java-based

and if you hire an offshore outsourcing company, odds are that they will insist on something java (spring) based, as that's where their experience is

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by vips7L on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @11:27PM (#47596454)
Lots of green field apps are Java based too. I just started a new codebase in Java 25.
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