IBm is heavily invested in java. There is no question they would keep on with it.
A more subtle question is what they would do with competing technologies...
Hostpot v. IBM's VM tech
Glassfish v. Websphere
And the answer is that nobody knows. In the long run they would likely
want to merge competing products into one product line but how they went
about that would be anyone's guess.
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