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I don't do Java. What is being implied here?
The company is using old proprietary software that breaks unless a specific java version is used. And don't want to upgrade/switch because it is too expensive.
Isn’t there an openjdk impl in like every major Linux distro repository?
And so I assume the same would be available for windows?
You assumed the switch needs to happen on the JDK. It's actually that we bought this software that depends on the old version with a perpetual license 18 years ago before every decided SaaS was god so we've got another 3 years left before ROI breaks even