You misread and 100% agreed with what I originally said :-) "...they will have a JDK that won't get security fixes in less time than this* unless they have some commercial support*"
Getting fixes from RedHat requires an active licence/support agreement, ditto for Java SE for business. On Thursday, 26 March 2015 09:54:30 UTC, Richard Bywater wrote: > > Not entirely true - Redhat customers will get until at least November (so > a further 6 months) and even after that the company could be paying Oracle > for extended support. > > Richard. > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 at 22:39 James Nord <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:33:09 UTC, Jesse Glick wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Stephen Connolly >>> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Which is why I think going for JDK7 now is a better plan than trying >>> to jump >>> > all the way to JDK8 >>> >>> Painful as it is, I tend to agree. To be clear, by current LTS policy, >>> switching the baseline to Java 8 means that someone whose corporate IT >>> supports installation of only Java 7 will not receive even security >>> fixes in about three months. (CloudBees customers get an extra nine >>> months’ reprieve.) Otherwise they are left to backport for themselves. >>> >> >> But they will have a JDK that won't get security fixes in less time than >> this unless they have some commercial support - so I don't get what your >> point is here? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/bfbcba82-cb58-43b4-a763-77b326662a9b%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/bfbcba82-cb58-43b4-a763-77b326662a9b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/4d65da98-f640-448f-b4f8-ee45b1872ef9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
