Two years ago, Oracle changed the licensing policy around Java. From a predominantly ‘free’ Java for most use cases, Oracle Java has been migrated to a largely commercial licensing model. This has given rise to potential license non-compliance risks and brought in a potentially new revenue stream for Oracle.
While we have not yet seen too many formal audits of end-user companies for their usage of Java, there have been
Oracle has always created new revenue streams from older products and licensing models. The same could hold true for Java. Audits for Java might start in the year 2021 and become mainstream in 2022.
Understanding your deployment, license rights, and alternatives.
Conduct an internal Java License review and work through the compliance issues. A baseline will help you explore the need to
We have developed discovery and license normalization techniques to provide you with an enterprise-wide Java (from Oracle, Open source, IBM, RedHat, etc) deployment inventory as well as a Java ELP. Using our services, you will be able understand your exposure, if any, to Java license fees.
We will assess the deployments, estimate potential savings, analyse risks & license non-compliance exposures and recommend optimizations.
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