Ok, we clearly have an extremely different definition of the word "the" workhorse of open source.
It doesn't mean "more than zero projects are Java based". Nor does it mean "most (opensource?) Java applications are based on open source". That latter is borderline circular, only Oracle legal shenanigans makes it not circular.
> and Java dominates enterprise space
I said nothing about enterprise. Clearly Java is HUGE in enterprise.
> so it is a huge open source workhorse
That sentence took a strange turn. Enterprise, and then back to open source?
> just more obscure than Linux, gcc etc.
Obscure? I'd expect Java to be about as strong a brand as Linux. Among developers in general I'd expect gcc to be orders of magnitude more obscure. There's no programmer out there who has not heard of Java, but many have never heard of gcc.
> Ok, we clearly have an extremely different definition of the word "the" workhorse of open source.
You said what it is not, but forgot to share your own definition.
>That sentence took a strange turn. Enterprise, and then back to open source?
What makes you so surprised? One does not exclude another, enterprise users are users too. Most of things in Java world aren’t client-side, so many users won’t observe them directly, but open source Java technology is doing a lot of work for them, constituting significant share of the code base.
It doesn't mean "more than zero projects are Java based". Nor does it mean "most (opensource?) Java applications are based on open source". That latter is borderline circular, only Oracle legal shenanigans makes it not circular.
> and Java dominates enterprise space
I said nothing about enterprise. Clearly Java is HUGE in enterprise.
> so it is a huge open source workhorse
That sentence took a strange turn. Enterprise, and then back to open source?
> just more obscure than Linux, gcc etc.
Obscure? I'd expect Java to be about as strong a brand as Linux. Among developers in general I'd expect gcc to be orders of magnitude more obscure. There's no programmer out there who has not heard of Java, but many have never heard of gcc.