Existing Oracle Java SE licensees may continue with their per-processor or per-user plans, and do not have to move to the new per-employee subscription, Oracle says.

The pricing is based on total employee counts, not the number of employees using Java. Published January 23, Oracle’s price list covers the new Java SE Universal Subscription program.

Java SE 7 Update 6 is fully supported and recommended for use with Oracle Fusion Middleware. And the OpenJDK Community continues to host the development of the reference implementation of Java SE 8.

Oracle’s change on pricing for the Java standard edition (SE) license by total employee count is likely to rile customers that have a fraction of employees who work with Java, Oracle partners ...

The Enterprise Edition of the GraalVM, Oracle's "universal virtual machine," is now available, free of charge, with a Java SE subscription, Oracle announced today. "The Java subscription model was ...

While Oracle CEO Larry Ellison focuses his attention on the America's Cup sailing race, Oracle is rushing to keep up in another race, the one to get its Java SE (Standard Edition) in the cloud.