Java 8 - commercial license needed in 2019

Classic Servoy
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Oracle announced there will be no more free updates in 2019 for Java 8:
https://www.java.com/en/download/release_notice.jsp

Did anybody hear about the costs of commercial licenses?
Customers start to ask about it.

Here Oracle lists different Java releases with numbers 8, 9, 10 and 11:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

Are releases with a number higher than 8 of relevance for Servoy?

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Today I did an update to the latest Java version on one computer.
Oracle then showed a hint that from beginning of 2019, a commercial Java license will be needed for commercial users.
It showed this on this link:
http://java.com/de/download/release_notice.jsp

On that side are more links at the end, especially:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html

Here are some informations regarding the costs:

And this is an older article from 2016 with relevance to this theme:

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https://www.aspera.com/en/blog/oracle-w … g-in-2019/

Current version will remain free of charge

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Hello,

I’ve been reading and investigating this issue and I’m not totally clear about what we need to do.

What Servoy suggest us to do? We should migrate to the openJDK and tell our clients (using smart client) to do the same? It works with Servoy? Or we need to buy a comercial license for Oracle Java?

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Hi João

We will make a formal announcement this month about the roadmap with the release of Servoy 8.4

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Hello again,

Do you have any news about this formal announcement?

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The large customers of Oracle should simply threaten to replace their Oracle databases by Postgres in case they have to pay for Java… :wink:

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sean:
Hi João

We will make a formal announcement this month about the roadmap with the release of Servoy 8.4

Hi Sean,
8.4 has been announced. Where can I find the formal announcement about Java & Servoy?

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Hi,

Thanks for your patience on this topic.

Please see this forum post regarding this topic

Best,
Sean