Java at business clients: Removing it for 2019?

[fencepost]

So, given Oracle's changes in licensing for Java are those who serve business clients going to be removing it from client systems or discussing with them the need to pay Oracle for a Java SE Subscription (probably including a contract clause allowing Oracle to audit your network for excess installations)?

Or am I completely misreading this? Everything I've found out there is pretty much clear as mud.

Hm, that reminds me, I should probably kick this over to the Solarwinds N-Central forums as well. N-Central at least requires a small Java program to handle port redirection if you're doing a remote connection via RDP.

It does make me appreciate ORACLE's acronym nature (One Rich * Called Larry Ellison)

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

From what I understand, it's only the full Java SE software that they will get tight on.
The Java RE is the free version that 99.9% of people have installed and will continue to be free....that's what I last heard. And the RE is what 99.9% of us need to access browsed based services that lean on it, such as N-Central.

 

[fencepost]

I haven't seen anything clear on that - it's almost as if they want to make it hard to figure out. Anyways, the JRE is the Runtime Environment for Standard Edition (there are ME "Micro Edition," SE "Standard Edition," and EE "Enterprise Edition").

I'm not so much concerned about licensing costs as lack of updates - at this point the only things I know of that customers or we would really need Java for are the Illinois system for Medicaid providers (must use IE + Java for authentication), N-Central for connecting to remote systems via RDP, and maybe a few really old HP printers from the days when they used Java applets for everything - and I think last time I had to deal with one of those I ended up just using Telnet to it instead. We used to need it because hospital portals required it, but these days all the hospital portals are Citrix based which means Java licensing moves to "not my problem."

I'm thinking I'll probably add Java to the Disallowed applications for app compliance and remove it anywhere it's found.