[Info-vax] Mostly off-topic: licensing methods

[John Dallman]

In article <tr3fdi$299sb$2 at dont-email.me>,
clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) wrote:

> On 2023-01-27, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> > PS: I predict that OpenJDK will become very popular with large
> >      corporations!
> PS: As for OpenJDK, Oracle _must_ have thought of that, so I wonder
> how they are going to counter that approach by large corporations ?

Large corporations started moving into OpenJDK quite some time ago. These
days, Oracle management seem to be mostly interested in offering
cloud-based services, which account for much of their profit nowadays.

They may have decided that Java isn't going to be a growth area for them,
like Solaris. If so, perhaps they're deliberately shedding the customers
who are prepared to move to OpenJDK, by finding out how many are prepared
to pay much more for Java. On this hypothesis, they'd still want to run
Java development to keep anyone else from getting control of it. 

An alternative possibility is that they've forgotten about companies that
/don't/ consist mostly of people using computers full-time. If they
assume their customers have most of their staff using Java, then they
might think per-employee pricing would be beneficial for customers, by
simplifying license administration. 

John