The prize in Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems is Java, but the big question is whether Larry Ellison and the gang can monetize the popular platform and bolster its standing against up and ...

Oracle's $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems means a new home for Java, and Java is doing just fine. Java developers say they prefer Oracle's stewardship of Java to IBM's.

It's a fair question to ask: Is Java slow? If you focus solely on performance time and resource consumption, it lags behind C++, but overall Java is still quite fast.

quote: I didnt see anyone mention this, but The Collage Board has decieded as of next year to use Java, as apposed to C++ for all the AP CS classes. Thank God my school offers CS on the ...

In what cases is Java faster, if at all, than C++? This question was originally answered on Quora by Cameron Purdy.