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Licensing. Oracle requires a commercial license

• lgessler 5y ago
  That's a reason not to use Oracle--GP's asking for a reason to use Oracle.
  • water8 5y ago
    OpenJDK:Ubuntu::OracleJDK:RedHat
• ajoberstar 5y ago
  You can get a paid commercial support license for Oracle's JDK to get an extended maintenance window. But Oracle's publicly available builds don't require a paid license. However,they only provide public builds of the current Java version. If you want LTS, you have to pay them or use another vendors builds.
  • carimura 5y ago
    That's changed a bit. As of JDK 17, Oracle offers Oracle JDK builds under the NFTC license [1], free for use in production with updates overlapping the next LTS version. [1] https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk-faqs.html https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk-faqs.htm...
    • water8 5y ago
      Currently though, a lot of Java software is still java version 8 or 11 which Oracle is withholding LTS for commercial customers