Like in any religion, when enough people believe in a dogma it become a "truth".
In my opinion, Java's "success" is a like a "religion". It is relatively easy to make money on "believers".
Nevertheless, facts are that in telecoms we have "success" of Erlang, in Android we have "success" of NDK, on server side there is everything mixed, and if someone would collect statistics of failed projects and project went hugely over time and budgets Java would be on the first place. And here, in my opinion, it would be a more of causation, not mere correlation.
In my opinion, Java's "success" is a like a "religion". It is relatively easy to make money on "believers".
Nevertheless, facts are that in telecoms we have "success" of Erlang, in Android we have "success" of NDK, on server side there is everything mixed, and if someone would collect statistics of failed projects and project went hugely over time and budgets Java would be on the first place. And here, in my opinion, it would be a more of causation, not mere correlation.