Since Sun went down, it hardly goes over 10% of external contributions, and no one else cared about getting hold of Java 6.
Maybe Google or Amazon could come up with GoSpring as well.
Dotnet - it's already ahead, and the existing software can stay in the current Java version. (I'm joking (but not really))
Why do you think Microsoft is now back in Java land with their own distribution, after everything that happened with Sun's lawsuit?
Because they have enough engineers to throw at any big environment where they can potentially expand in the future and having own distribution for an app layer lays foundations for new Azure services? (edit: checked after the response; first paragraph: "Java at Microsoft spans from Azure to Minecraft, across SQL Server to Visual Studio Code" - yeah, I think I got it)
And here are some examples where .NET is hardly ahead, it isn't even there.
https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc
https://www.aicas.com/wp/products-services/jamaicavm/
https://developer.cisco.com/site/jtapi/overview/
https://emea.ricoh-developer.com/about-us/membership/smart-m...
Among other several use cases outside mainstream computing, there are many JVM vendors out there, in the similar vein as C and C++ ones.
And naturally the elephant in the room, Android with its Android Java flavour, with Xamarin not really offering a good development experience, to the point Xamarin rants are quite easy to find on the interwebs (it remains to be seen if MAUI is any better).
It is like all Sun freeloaders complaining about Oracle buying the company, while no one else bothered to get them out of trouble.
The fleet of companies who use Java extensively and care about it's future.
Java has a huge ecosystem to put it lightly. Oracle is not the single point of failure.
