Donald Smith - Vice President of Product Management - Java Platfrom Group
Donald Smith, MBA, MSc, is Vice President of Product Management for Oracle, where he runs Java SE Product Management.
He brings global enterprise software experience, ranging from startups through Fortune 500 companies. Donald has decades of experience speaking about Java, open source, community development, business models, business integration and software development politics at conferences and events worldwide.
Donald’s background includes helping develop the first commercially-successful Object-Relational Mapping products for Smalltalk and Java, transitioning to Java EE Application Servers, and driving the Eclipse Foundation through years of rapid growth where he still sits on the IP Advisory Committee.
Posts
- Detaching GraalVM from the Java Ecosystem Train on September 17, 2025
- Java SE Spring 2024 Roadmap Update on June 8, 2024
- Introducing the Java SE Subscription Enterprise Performance Pack on October 18, 2022
- Java SE 7 End of Extended Support in July 2022 on October 15, 2021
- Introducing the Free Java License on September 14, 2021
- Moving the JDK to a Two Year LTS Cadence on September 14, 2021
- The art of long-term support and what LTS means for the Java ecosystem on September 10, 2021
- Update on 64-bit ARM Support for Oracle OpenJDK and Oracle JDK on November 12, 2020
- Java Client Roadmap Updates on May 13, 2020
- The OpenJDK Community TCK License Agreement (OCTLA) on October 15, 2018
- End of Public Updates is a Process, not an Event on September 17, 2018
- Oracle JDK Releases for Java 11 and Later on September 11, 2018
- Update and FAQ on the Java SE Release Cadence on May 3, 2018
Podcasts
- The New Stack - Java Adapts to Cloud Native Computing on March 1, 2022
- Episode 19 “Java 17 is Here! Part 1” on September 14, 2021