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Oracle Sets End Date for Business Java 8 Updates (infoworld.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the eights-and-aces dept.

An anonymous reader quotes InfoWorld: Further clarifying its ongoing support plans for Java SE 8, Oracle will require businesses to have a commercial license to get updates after January 2019. In an undated bulletin about the revision, Oracle said public updates for Java SE 8 released after January 2019 will not be available for business, commercial, or production use without a commercial license. However, public updates for Java SE 8 will be available for individual, personal use through at least the end of 2020.

Oracle advises enterprises to review the Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap to assess support requirements to migrate to a later release or obtain a commercial license... Oracle advises developers to review roadmaps for Java SE 8 and beyond and take appropriate action based on their application and its distribution model.

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  1. Re:Why not migrate by careysub · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, the latest version of Confluent Platform community edition - a Kafka/ Zookeeper offering - only runs on Java 8. That would be the major reason, using code - either commercial or open source - that does not run on Java 9 or 10.

    Then there is the puzzling short maintenance periods being offered for all post Java 8 releases. See for example the comments here. Moving to a new Java version that will be supported apparently for six months is very questionable for any enterprise. It appears that Oracle has some sort of scheme to make everyone (businesses, anyway) to pay for using Java going forward.

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  2. Re:Dear Oracle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why are you calling me sexist? I'm merely telling you the logic college administrators trying to boost women's enrollment in CS classes had decided. If you feel that is sexist, take it up with them, not me.

    >To reduce the intimidation factor, the course was divided into two sections — “gold,” for those with no prior experience, and “black” for everyone else. Java, a notoriously opaque programming language, was replaced by a more accessible language called Python. And the focus of the course changed to computational approaches to solving problems across science.

    >https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/giving-women-the-access-code.html