Oracle may finally do what everyone else couldn't, kill JAVA completely. Secondary benefit is if Oracle kills itself in the process.
The place I work at would suffer through a $20K MONTHLY cost simply because a vendor supplied software product has their software running on Java. Yeah, that sure as hell is not happening. For them OpenJDK is NOT an option as their UI is based on JavaFX and that is NOT fully supported.
Fuck Oracle.
Fuck Java.
~~~ Background Article Summary below ~~~
in late 2018, Oracle made some rather large changes to the way customers will receive patches and updates for the aging Java environment.
Consumers who run Java SE 8 on their home computers or other personal uses can continue to receive periodic updates and security patches for the runtime environment, according to Oracle’s new rules. But companies who use the Java SE 8 runtime will have to pony up the cash if they want to keep their systems free of security vulnerabilities, according to Oracle.
“Public updates for Oracle Java SE 8 will remain available for individual, personal use through at least the end of 2020,” Oracle states on its Web page. “Public updates for Oracle Java SE 8 released after January 2019 will not be available for business, commercial or production use without a commercial license.”
The Redwood City, California, company made similar changes to version 11 of the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK). Oracle says users “May not . . . use the programs for any data processing or any commercial, production, or internal business purposes other than developing, testing, prototyping, and demonstrating your application.”
So what’s a Java user to do? Companies that want to maintain their older Java SE 8 environments can purchase a Java SE Subscription from the Oracle Store. The annual subscriptions start at $30 per user for desktop support, $300 per processor for server and cloud environments, and $1,200 per user for Java tools (including NetBeans, JDeveloper, and Enterprise Pack for Eclipse).
Oracle is being criticized for the changes to Java SE 8 and JDK 11 terms, with some users claiming that the changes constitute a trap for those who previously used Java SE in production without being asked to pay for it. “For 23 years, developers have downloaded the JDK from Oracle and used it for $free,” writes Stephen Colebourne on his Java blog. “Unless you read the text/warnings/legalese very carefully you might not even realize Oracle JDK is now commercial, and that you are therefore liable to pay Oracle for using this particular JDK in production.”
Snippets taken from article here: https://www.itjungle.com/2019/04/03/ibm-clarifies-java-options-following-oracle-license-crackdown/
The place I work at would suffer through a $20K MONTHLY cost simply because a vendor supplied software product has their software running on Java. Yeah, that sure as hell is not happening. For them OpenJDK is NOT an option as their UI is based on JavaFX and that is NOT fully supported.
Fuck Oracle.
Fuck Java.
~~~ Background Article Summary below ~~~
in late 2018, Oracle made some rather large changes to the way customers will receive patches and updates for the aging Java environment.
Consumers who run Java SE 8 on their home computers or other personal uses can continue to receive periodic updates and security patches for the runtime environment, according to Oracle’s new rules. But companies who use the Java SE 8 runtime will have to pony up the cash if they want to keep their systems free of security vulnerabilities, according to Oracle.
“Public updates for Oracle Java SE 8 will remain available for individual, personal use through at least the end of 2020,” Oracle states on its Web page. “Public updates for Oracle Java SE 8 released after January 2019 will not be available for business, commercial or production use without a commercial license.”
The Redwood City, California, company made similar changes to version 11 of the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK). Oracle says users “May not . . . use the programs for any data processing or any commercial, production, or internal business purposes other than developing, testing, prototyping, and demonstrating your application.”
So what’s a Java user to do? Companies that want to maintain their older Java SE 8 environments can purchase a Java SE Subscription from the Oracle Store. The annual subscriptions start at $30 per user for desktop support, $300 per processor for server and cloud environments, and $1,200 per user for Java tools (including NetBeans, JDeveloper, and Enterprise Pack for Eclipse).
Oracle is being criticized for the changes to Java SE 8 and JDK 11 terms, with some users claiming that the changes constitute a trap for those who previously used Java SE in production without being asked to pay for it. “For 23 years, developers have downloaded the JDK from Oracle and used it for $free,” writes Stephen Colebourne on his Java blog. “Unless you read the text/warnings/legalese very carefully you might not even realize Oracle JDK is now commercial, and that you are therefore liable to pay Oracle for using this particular JDK in production.”
Snippets taken from article here: https://www.itjungle.com/2019/04/03/ibm-clarifies-java-options-following-oracle-license-crackdown/
