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0 pointsblinkingled6y ago0 comments

Many organizations need to have supported 1.7 and 1.8 releases and it's a lot of money to spend on per core licensing which is a new thing after Oracle took over. The link you posted do not have free updated binaries for JDK 7 or 8. For those you have to pay. A lot.

So it makes sense to look for non Oracle JDK and along with OpenJDK, OpenJ9 is a great choice.

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pron6y ago· 2 in thread

First, what do you mean by "after Oracle took over"? JDK 7 and 8 were released by Oracle (6 was the last one under Sun). Second, you always had to pay for the JDK after ~5 years of free public updates, and the price now is lower than before. Finally, OpenJDK is the name of Oracle's one and only Java implementation project, with contributions from other companies; OpenJ9 is, indeed, a completely separate project by IBM, but ~80% of that JDK is copied from OpenJDK. And those paid support subscriptions? They fund most of OpenJDK's development.

blinkingledOP6y ago

Not sure what you're getting defensive about - the Oracle JDK licensing change was a recent thing than JDK 7 or 8 release dates. And the per core licensing isn't cheap. So that gets companies to seek cheaper alternatives. What is there to argue about?

It's a fact that Oracle changed licensing on JDK 7 and 8 they admit that themselves.

pron6y ago

The support license was changed to a subscription model that lowered prices after 7 and 8 were out of the ~5-year free public updates period. Companies wishing to stay on old versions and buy support for them pay less than they did or expected to before the change.

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