Oracle handing over java products and standards

Oracle is reducing its Java costs and commitment. The latest platform releases (Java SE 9 and Java EE 8) were surprisingly low key.
With the releases out of the door, Oracle is drastically reducing its teams and handing over control of related products.

• The Netbeans IDE, always the first to implement new standards, is handed over to the Apache Foundation.
• The Java EE standard itself (!) is handed over to the Eclipse foundation under the EE4J (Enterprise Eclipse For Java) project.

Given that the EE spec moves to an organisation whose main product is a Java IDE, Apache seems a second choice for Netbeans.