Dear friends,
What is the impact of this change in Oracle’s policy for OpenMRS development strategy?
Is there a separate thread discussing this?
https://www.itassetmanagement.net/2018/05/01/oracle-to-charge-for-java-from-jan-2019/
Dear friends,
What is the impact of this change in Oracle’s policy for OpenMRS development strategy?
Is there a separate thread discussing this?
https://www.itassetmanagement.net/2018/05/01/oracle-to-charge-for-java-from-jan-2019/
HI Alvin,
I think it’s not that Oracle will charge for Java.
Java 8 is reaching its EOL for community updates: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html
For some reason, Oracle still releases security patches for paying customers for a while after the EOL, I assume trying to monetize on those who can pay and have trouble upgrading java.
It has happened for older versions of JDK.
Also to add onto what @cintiadr has said:
Check out the latest, no-cost JDK from Amazon: https://dzone.com/articles/amazon-corretto-another-jdk
Amazon has released Corretto, a no-cost distribution of the OpenJDK. Amazon’s James Gosling (a.k.a. the “father of Java”) celebrates the project as “[making] the work of [Amazon’s] internal mission-critical Java team…available to the rest of the world.” Amazon Corretto comes with long-term support and is already used for a number of production services at Amazon. Maheshwar Ligade offers an overview and details how to get started with the developer preview release on DZone.
Amazon is a whole different level of evil in that regard. They are taking from the FOSS community and not giving back.