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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle
They will coexist.
I think that Java would also be installed if the licensing issues could have been worked out.
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That will never be the case since Oracle is an evil company that doesn't have the best interests of their customers in mind. If they could have fully reversed the work that Sun did on opening up Java, I think they would have. They effectively killed any open source Solaris efforts, thereby rendering Solaris totally irrelevant, and leading many of the lead engineers to go work for someone to continue to innovate on the existing quasi-open (the CDDL is incompatible with the GPL, so no Solaris code can be integrated into, say, the Linux kernel) code base, but without any real resources to do so.
</rant>
Yeah, not having to download Java separately would be awesome! In view of the rant above, however, it's not going to happen unless an alternative Java implementation is used (OpenJDK anyone?) or NI negotiates some license with Oracle, likely for an absurd amount of money.