Oracle and IBM have a common Java-line agreed on. The two companies will combine their efforts to the OpenJDK forward. This is to ensure that the Java development progress in hardware and other software to keep pace with. The OpenJDK is the open-source implementation of Java, Oracle has taken over along with Sun, it is the basis of all Java applications from the desktop tool to the enterprise application. It specifically excludes from the agreement is Java for mobile devices.

IBM is taking it a turning point in its Java strategy. Although the company firmly established in the Java world is one, it was on Sun-Times are independent of Sun Java strategy driven one. Sun previously supported IBM competes with Sun's JDK, the Java platform Apache Harmony. These efforts, IBM's vice president for Open Source Bob Sutor in his blog that they would set now.

For IBM, the agreement reduces the uncertainty around Java, the acquisition of Sun by Oracle has emerged since the. Said Oracle had Java inventor James Gosling, shortly after taking leave , and later Oracle's Java strategy in clear terms criticized. Java user complained in the summer on the inadequate information policy of the company in terms of Java. Above all, the lawsuit against Google for alleged patent and copyright infringement in connection with the Android JVM Dalvik were to a considerable loss of confidence in the Java policy implemented in Oracle. At the Java One, Oracle has recently adopted a roadmap for the further development of Java-presented.