India, Sept. 25 -- In the fast-changing world of technology, very few programming languages can claim a three-decade run at the centre of enterprise IT. Java, born in the mid-1990s, turned 30 this year, still powering critical workloads across banking, telecom, retail, and government systems. Against a backdrop where newer languages rise and fade in less than a decade, Java continues to reinvent itself. With the release of Java 25, Oracle is signalling not just another upgrade, but a thoughtful re-architecting of how the platform will remain relevant in an AI-driven, cloud-native world.

In an exclusive interaction with Dataquest, Oracle executives - Bernard Traversat, Vice President of Software Development; Chad Arimura, Vice President o...