IDEA comes with its own JDK bundled, so if you have permission to run IDEA, you have the updated Java (installed to the subdirectory that IDEA resides in, nonco

IDEA comes with its own JDK bundled, so if you have permission to run IDEA, you have the updated Java (installed to the subdirectory that IDEA resides in, nonconflicting with the system JRE). What's so hard about that? Or is your question about how JetBrains expects to get permission from the pointyhair bosses to purchase the new IDEA version for their developers in the first place? If that's your question then it's not really JetBrain's business if megacorps decide developer productivity is not worth the money to spend on buying a new copy of IDEA.