Oracle created a brand new market in Java support contracts which didn't exist before, so that they could enter it and make a buck (wherein FUD is a standard sa

Oracle created a brand new market in Java support contracts which didn't exist before, so that they could enter it and make a buck (wherein FUD is a standard sales tactic for them). They probably viewed their position on the OpenJDK as subsidising a public good, which in general is slightly out of character for Oracle. Most enterprise vendors have, or will soon have, comparable products for sale. My employers have Pivotal Spring Runtime[0]. You can also get OpenJDK coverage from Red Hat[1], Amazon[2], Azul[3] and so on. Incidentally I resent that I sometimes wind up defending Oracle's decisions. I think it was globally suboptimal but I can understand their reasoning. [0] https://pivotal.io/pivotal-spring-runtime https://pivotal.io/pivotal-spring-runtime [1] https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013 https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013 [2] https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ [3] https://www.azul.com/products/zulu-enterprise/ https://www.azul.com/products/zulu-enterprise/