RE: Has IBM announced any reaction to Oracle's announced end ofpublic updates for JDK 8

IBM has had a java run time for a while now. RDi has come with its own
version of Java for as long as I can remember. I believe websphere is
the same way. If you go into help -> about rdi -> installation details
-> configuration then you can see the java settings that it is using.

Kevin Bucknum
Senior Programmer Analyst
MEDDATA/MEDTRON
Tel: 985-893-2550

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jack Callahan
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2018 12:30 PM
To: midrange-l
Subject: RE: Has IBM announced any reaction to Oracle's announced end
ofpublic updates for JDK 8

Jim:

I'm inclined to believe our usage would be categorized as enterprise

use

rather than individual personal use as defined by Oracle. Meaning

Oracle

updates will no longer be provided after January 2019 without a

maintenance

subscription of some sort. Not so far off.

I surmise from elsewhere in this forum that IBM is working on an

alternate

jvm. Or will embed the jvm within their products at some point in the

future.

Just haven't noticed any official statement from the IBM i executive

team

about their direction, now that Oracle is taking java to a different

business

model.

All this driven from the java update I installed this morning.

java release_notice <https://java.com/en/download/release_notice.jsp>

Since IBM plans to support ACS with a more recent version of Java,

my

understanding is it will move along with the Java versions. Note

that

the end of public updates for Java 8 is 12/2020, so that's a long

way

off, certainly beyond this budget cycle.

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