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An eagle-eyed licensing consultant in Germany has spotted that licensing terms for downloads from the VirtualBox website have ...
Oracle’s share of the Java market already had dropped precipitously, from about 75% in 2020 to 34.48% in 2022, according to New Relic’s 2022 State of the Java Ecosystem report.
Following four price changes between 2020 and 2023, Oracle customers aren't happy with Java pricing - and are seeking alternatives.
Azul’s State of Java Survey and Report from 2023, which surveyed 2,000 businesses using Java, found Oracle’s market share dropped from 75% for Java Development Kit distributions in 2020 to 42% ...
The new Oracle pricing model detaches Java costs from actual usage, creating an unsustainable scenario: a 10,000-employee company running a handful of Java applications pays the same as a ...
With Oracle’s change, “affected MD-5 signed JAR files will no longer be considered trusted [by the Oracle JRE] and will not be able to run by default, such as in the case of Java applets, or ...
Now Oracle has begun including the same adware as part of a default installation of Java for the Mac, using the same deceptive techniques. Written by Ed Bott, Senior Contributing Editor March 5 ...
Oracle employees that worked on Java EE have told others in the community that they have been ordered to work on other things. There has also been open talk of some Java EE developers "forking ...