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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by toyg on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:45PM (#21261390)
It might be the magic "support" word - random openjdk builds don't bring any commercial guarantees.

This said, the likes of RedHat, Amazon and Azul are pretty happy to offer those guarantees, and I bet their prices are lower than Big Red O.

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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by thenewnewguy on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:03PM (#21264425)
Yes, but that wouldn't be a 'technical' reason, would it?
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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by dataminded on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:35PM (#21265786)
It's why we are paying for Java.
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