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Oracle changed the distribution terms of TZUpdater from free (as in beer) to available only to paying customers at least half a year ago. It should be noted, t

by zorlem 13y ago

Oracle changed the distribution terms of TZUpdater from free (as in beer) to available only to paying customers at least half a year ago. It should be noted, though, that this largely affects only users that for some reason can't update their JRE and are lagging behind the latest version. Oracle still provides up-to-date versions of the TZ data with the latest JRE. It's not a big issue since one could use IBM's TZ updater tool or compile the TZ data from the raw Olson TZ database using javazic.jar available from OpenJDK.

overgard 13y ago
It strikes me that the organizations that can't update to the latest JRE are the really large enterprises still running IE6 and so on. I think one client we worked with was still stuck on Java 1.4. I imagine that's the target of this latest change.
- zorlem 13y ago
  >It strikes me that the organizations that can't update to the latest JRE are the really large enterprises still running IE6 and so on. Not necessarily. I know quite a few companies that have stabilized their code against a particular version and lack the manpower and/or the money to constantly upgrade and deal with the newly introduced bugs in newer versions. They usually do the upgrades on a schedule (eg. once a year or every 18 months). For most major deployments changing to a new version of the JVM is a non-trivial task. edit: added a life-cycle
- yuhong 13y ago
  In fact, you can pay Oracle to support old versions of JRE, and 1.4 was updated under paid support until Feb of this year.