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Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time (www.theregister.com)
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[-] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Openjdk: https://openjdk.org/

Or for people that use jre or want installers: https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html

We just went through all of this and we just switched to openjdk without issues.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 months ago

You didn't seem to understand. Oracle only supports their own jvm when running their software that uses Java (e.g. weblogic).

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

I know it may not be an easy question to answer, but does your company really owe them money? I’m guessing that their other software that uses their JVM also has a license, so they should be more clear about the company having to license out the JVM in order to use it. This sounds like a scam that comes packaged along with some other software.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

Oh - sorry, Oracle offers a free "entitlement" to use the JVM when used with their software if it's required. We don't pay extra for the Oracle JVM.

[-] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sorry forgot about support.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

It's not about functionality. When you're paying for licensing and support you need to use supported versions of things. If you call up about an issue with the database and you're running an unsupported os or Java version they hang up on you.

[-] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Sorry forgot about support. You are right.

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