Hi,
Have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 to find something very annoying. The previous release's ~9.04 packages for SUN Java are stuck, as the karmic ones have a lesser version number. This is a problem for many reasons:
1. It's very confusing.
2. Certain apps (namely eclipse) don't work properly with the 9.04 package and require the upgrade, which I am prevented from doing via Synaptic.
3. The karmic version is OLDER!
I read that this is because somebody has decided that "OpenJDK" is a better solution than Sun Java. It isn't, here's why:
1. Hosting providers use and are supporting only SUN Java.
2. Companies use and are providing and supporting only SUN Java.
3. There will never be 100% compatibility between SunJDK and OpenJDK
4. Ubuntu is now even more difficult to set up for my 200 user company, because we have to MANUALLY install Java, lest we use the inferior (sorry, but in a corporate environment it is inferior) OpenJDK and then have a risk of something which works locally, not work on our live servers. This introduces RISK.
Please can whoever has made this decision, whatever board, voting system, whatever, please re-think their decision. I do not use Ubuntu to have to manually install half of my software (Eclipse is already a big issue) like some windows user. I use Ubuntu because it's clean and easy. This OpenJDK stuff does not help.
Whatever happened to choice? If I install sun-java6-jdk I expect sun's JDK. If I install open-java6-jdk I expect the open one. I want my choice back!
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