On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 2:22 PM Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Elliotte,
> Java 11 support is already EOL for most vendor until you go "premium" > flavor which will likely be very few people and most of them will be able > to pay somebody to backport the needed stuff in custom distro of their work > if needed anyday so not sure we should consider it. At least three big tech companies I know of build their own JDKs. At least one, possibly two, ship and support older JDKs for their customers. None of them are tied to Oracle and what Oracle is willing to support. If Oracle and all its data went to the great bit bucket in the sky tomorrow, they'd keep right on rolling. It would not even be a speed bump. They don't pay for premium support. They compete to provide premium support.* * There are some caveats here I won't go into for confidentiality reasons, but I can say that Azul's business model works. > On the other side most libraries tend to move forward faster and if you > like big ones, i'll take Spring or JakartaEE as an example - big user base > rather than big company$ ;) - and they don't even support Java 11 anymore. Used by big tech customers. Not so much used by big tech companies themselves, that tend to run on stacks developed in house over more than a decade. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
