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> they speed up development, by effectively offloading legacy support Not really, no. They maintain Java 8 until 2025 and Java 11 until 2026 [1]. If you pay en

• toyg 8y ago
  You might not be familiar with the Oracle policies - which is fair enough, not everyone has worked there ;) Once Premier support is over, the only thing you get for your money is “we will not delete related KM, and we will still answer the phone and tell you you’re screwed”. Even Extended Support is a bit of a joke, you’ll just get “don’t sue me” fixes. But what I meant is that now they can drop support for any non-LTS Java release immediately, and limit LTS support to shorter periods if they want, because when you call them crying that you need a fix, they can simply point to someone else.
  • needusername 8y ago
    Be that as it may Premier Support for Java 11 still lasts until September 2023. So yes, Premier Support is down to five from eight years but I don't see how this requires a different licensing model. On a different note my personal experience with Premier Support could best be described as war of attrition. If we won that and got lucky after waiting a few months we got "it's fixed in the next major release". That is the best case. That was with Oracle database, not Java. In general the process is so annoying we won't report a bug unless we absolutely have to. I assume that was the goal behind the design of the process.