I’ve been waiting for an in-depth discussion of this issue, and this covers all the bases that are relevant to my company. Fortunately, when I migrated our production server from self-hosting to Amazon Linux in 2013, we started using the free OpenJDK since it was the default on that distribution. This was forward thinking on Amazon’s part (as well as Sun Microsystems, RIP), and in retrospect, much appreciated. We had zero compatibility issues, we are always on the latest version, and we owe zero royalties.
Oracle’s real goal is to increase support revenue. The majority of companies will have little choice but to use the LTS releases, and since the free support between LTS releases no longer overlaps, they’ll have to buy support.
I’ve been waiting for an in-depth discussion of this issue, and this covers all the bases that are relevant to my company. Fortunately, when I migrated our production server from self-hosting to Amazon Linux in 2013, we started using the free OpenJDK since it was the default on that distribution. This was forward thinking on Amazon’s part (as well as Sun Microsystems, RIP), and in retrospect, much appreciated. We had zero compatibility issues, we are always on the latest version, and we owe zero royalties.
Oracle’s real goal is to increase support revenue. The majority of companies will have little choice but to use the LTS releases, and since the free support between LTS releases no longer overlaps, they’ll have to buy support.