The enterprise tech landscape in mid-2026 is defined by a sharp pivot: Oracle has fundamentally altered its licensing model with the Java SE Universal Subscription, creating immediate budget pressures ...

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In January, Oracle replaced the Java SE and Java SE Desktop subscription with the new Java SE Universal subscription that charges enterprise on a per employee metric instead of a per processor or per ...

The Enterprise Edition of the GraalVM, Oracle's "universal virtual machine," is now available, free of charge, with a Java SE subscription, Oracle announced today. "The Java subscription model was ...

Existing Oracle Java SE licensees may continue with their per-processor or per-user plans, and do not have to move to the new per-employee subscription, Oracle says. Current Oracle Java SE licensees ...

New pricing for Oracle's Java standard edition (SE) licensing is raising eyebrows as the company switches from charging based on Java users to total number of employees. Oracle's 2023 price list for ...

‘Having to license your entire employee count is not reasonable because you could have 10,000 employees, maybe only 500 of them need Java. And maybe you only have a couple of servers for a couple of ...

Free support for Oracle Java 17 will end in September 2024, and anyone who wants to continue using the version commercially will have to take out a paid subscription. But this can be expensive. What ...

Oracle is adding its GraalVM compiler technology at no additional cost to the Java SE subscription to help developers build microservices and do cloud-native development on the Java platform. GraalVM ...