Java may or may not be a "great language" but java coders suck. Java breeds lazy coders which makes for software full of bugs. Yes, a great many big corporation are at risk because they have to run old and vulnerable JRE on the client and server in order to support software that the java coder couldn't manage to make work correctly with the latest release of the JRE. Java and Adobe products are constantly battling for which is the biggest vulnerability.