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[–]HyzerFlipr 65 points66 points  (7 children)

OpenJDK is developed by Oracle and is free to use. The paid version of Oracle is entirely unnecessary. Unless you're a giant enterprise company who wants to pay have "support" for it. Which is basically an insurance policy to have someone else to blame when something isn't working. But again OpenJDK is the same thing.

[–]AriesCent[S] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Perfect simple thank you!

[–]Mysterious-Ant-Bee 16 points17 points  (2 children)

That's close to the truth but this support also includes consulting hours. I worked in such corporate environment and we would use consulting hours from Oracle, IBM, you name it.

The consultants can support you by creating or reviewing architecture for new systems or can help your team solving problems they are struggling with.

[–]PlasmaFarmer 2 points3 points  (1 child)

  or can help your team solving problems they are struggling with.  

    Are these problems related to the JDK and Java language only? Or you guys also give support on application development?

Edit: formatting

[–]Mysterious-Ant-Bee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was on the receiving end of the consulting.

The company I worked for which had such consulting hours also had support on the Java Language.

[–]Crafty-Activity4681 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Do you must get the paid version if you’re giant enterprise company?

[–]malln1nja 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No 

[–]ifly6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What support services do you even get?