I guess Oracle saw that enough orgs were opting out of JDK 17 adoption?
They'll have to boil the kettle much slower, like Microsoft and Apple do.
They'll have to boil the kettle much slower, like Microsoft and Apple do.
Also, making the last 1.5 (LTS+1 year into the next LTS) years free probably doesn’t mean a serious profit loss, as those primary come from things running Java 8 for another decade still.
2. They provide images for OpenJDK.
It would be very logical move to just provide Oracle JDK LTS image.
There are plenty of software which would be based on those images. They could use Oracle Linux as a base to somewhat indirectly promote it.
https://container-registry.oracle.com/ords/f?p=113:4:1094175...
Or if you prefer OpenJDK: https://container-registry.oracle.com/ords/f?p=113:4:1094175...