>Something about paying for licensing and the support that comes with it makes them feel warm and fuzzy. SRE here, the warm and fuzzy is lets them dodge any ac

>Something about paying for licensing and the support that comes with it makes them feel warm and fuzzy. SRE here, the warm and fuzzy is lets them dodge any accountability. Their teams push out bad code, blame it on Java Runtime, engage Oracle and in chaos of an outage, push out real fix and claim "Oracle fixed their mistakes". When I was Windows Ops type, I had a manager that wanted to call Microsoft for every outage just so management would think we are on it, even if the problem was not Microsoft at all. Backslaps all around for management, bonuses intact and everyone happy. "Wait, doesn't this impact revenue?" Most companies I know who use Java are type that get deeply embedded in their customers and it's not revenue impacting, just revenue delayed.