They’ve been giving us shit because they “see downloads from our IP addresses”. It’s an absolute shake-down operation. They let anybody download their poisoned jvm for free and then tell your company that they now owe them a fortune.
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.
Oracle is a law firm with a large IT department.
They’ve been giving us shit because they “see downloads from our IP addresses”. It’s an absolute shake-down operation. They let anybody download their poisoned jvm for free and then tell your company that they now owe them a fortune.
It’s time for corporate IT to block that download
We’d love to but we do have some legitimate needs for it since Oracle software requires their jvm. It’s a massive pain in the ass.
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.
You didn’t seem to understand. Oracle only supports their own jvm when running their software that uses Java (e.g. weblogic).
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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.
Sorry forgot about support.
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.
Sorry forgot about support. You are right.
What’s hilarious is that the AdoptOpenJDK project (now called Adoptium) managed to create a better UI than Oracle ever had for downloads.