Java is still available at zero-cost

Post by Corrado » Sat, Sep 01, 2018, 3:21 PM UTC

peanutz454 wrote: post #45

MBCook wrote: post #35

I have a friend working at a company that is having “very important” discussions about this. They need to keep up with security patches (for obvious reasons) but the six month limit has them scared. The consensus seems to be that they don’t believe they can keep up with an upgrade schedule that fast and are thus forced to pay for support from someone or hope that the community backports security fixes far enough for…

I am not sure I completely understand the implications of this. But, if OpenJDK is the reference implementation, and as long as someone is going to maintain Java 11, there really isn't much to worry. I worked for a company that completely relies on Java. They also relied on Apache, so they had on their roles two developers that wrote code for Apache and Tomcat. Making wild guesses here but - if OpenJDK project gets 3…

Post by arthurcolle » Sun, Sep 02, 2018, 2:13 AM UTC

majewsky wrote: post #133

arthurcolle wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Part of the issue here is likely the pressure that dev teams feel to be outputting something rather than nothing at all. There definitely seems to be a huge overemphasis on quantity over quality.

Not sure if this is a stylistic choice, but if you want, you can do actual italics like this: You can do actual *italics* like this.