- #ORACLE JAVA LICENSING CHANGES HOW TO#
- #ORACLE JAVA LICENSING CHANGES UPDATE#
- #ORACLE JAVA LICENSING CHANGES UPGRADE#
Does this have an impact on my PaperCut MF or NG licence? You can also find more general information pertaining to the end of our formal support for various operating systems and past releases in our Support End-of-life Policy.
#ORACLE JAVA LICENSING CHANGES UPGRADE#
If you think you might still have 32-bit workstations in your environment, you’ll definitely want to read our End-of-life for 32-bit Operating Systems article before proceeding with an upgrade from version 18.3.8 or earlier. Our server components were upgraded to 64-bit only in 2018, and the move to OpenJDK 11 builds on this, with workstation components such as our User Client and Release Station no longer supported on 32-bit operating systems. We just bought the Java licensing we needed last year for about 3k (only about 30 installs on desktops )under their new pricing model this would now cost us about 350k (still 30 installs but need to count total users which is about 3000) Oracle has already started reaching out to us about this change. One of the key changes with this upgrade is that we have ended support for 32-bit operating systems throughout PaperCut MF and NG. Is there anything I need to know when upgrading to version 19.0 or later? This does mean we do not have access to commercial support from Oracle, but this is not something we have made use of in the past, so this is not a significant change in circumstance.Īll in all, our aim is to make the transition from Java 8 to OpenJDK 11 as smooth and painless for you as is feasible. Making the switch over to OpenJDK ensured we could continue to use Java without any impact of licensing costs. All impacted licensees should be examining what they stand to gain or lose from their vendor’s rejiggered pricing mechanism. This upgrade to the bundled Java is included in the version 19.0 release of both PaperCut MF and PaperCut NG, seeing wide release in April 2019. Simplified or not, the true aim behind this licensing change seems to be the creation of a much more seamless sales process for Oracle. Here at PaperCut, we made the decision to switch over to using OpenJDK 11. In addition, Oracle have decided to no longer provide Java SE free for commercial use. Oracle (the wizards behind Java) announced that they would be ending support for Java 8 at the beginning of 2019. Until recently, PaperCut MF and NG had been using Java 8. Each satellite component of PaperCut MF and NG which can be installed or copied to a location other than the primary Application Server will also run this version of Java.
#ORACLE JAVA LICENSING CHANGES HOW TO#
We are hosting a live event to discuss the changes and help you with options on how to mitigate the licensing change.
#ORACLE JAVA LICENSING CHANGES UPDATE#
Future software updates, after the current Java Standard Edition (SE) update in January 2019 will be chargeable. On Windows, macOS, and Linux, PaperCut MF and NG come bundled with a specific version of Java that only the application will utilise. This change is now confirmed by Oracle, its available on the Oracle FAQ. The Java SE platform Licensing has changed. Did you know the majority of PaperCut MF and PaperCut NG is written in Java as the underlying programming language?
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