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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by hansjorg on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:32PM (#21261198)
It's the same now, but in previous versions there were important differences. Might be legacy code that's hard to make forward compatible.
Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by AtlasBarfed on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:41PM (#21261335)
AWS is maintaining separate releases of the JDK to help offset the release shenanigans of Oracle.

And there are other concerted efforts to keep control from Oracle in releases and the validity of the JDK.

As long as a sufficiently large majority (and AWS is helping here a lot, admittedly) maintain such regimented discipline, the JDK will be ok.

Oracle mostly wanted it to sue google for billions. That suit is basically dead, and Oracle knows the JVM isn't worth any large scale revenue.

Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by guitarbill on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @03:49PM (#21262880)
Corretto is decent, but AWS just doesn't get non-Amazon devs/tooling, and so e.g. almost a year later, there is still no alpine docker image: https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8-docker/issues/1