The email, sent to InfoWorld on Tuesday by a former high-ranking Java official, claimed to feature details from inside Oracle. It said the company was becoming a cloud company, competing with Salesforce, and "Java has no interest to them anymore." The subject line cited "Java -- planned obsolescence."
You mean like SHA-256? Are you aware its creators, our friendly big brother at the NSA has now stopped recommending its use? However I don't think its time to throw away Bitcoin now is it?
Companies missions and priorities change, Google was once an open source advocate, now they are drifting into closed source applications. It doesn't mean however any work created in their path is suddenly worthless or cannot be developed further by other parties.