Oracle has announced that clients who already have Java entitlement through perpetual licenses or under a subscription can renew under their existing terms and conditions.īut what license approach is best for your organization? The financial impact of Oracle’s Java pricing metric change will likely be different for every Oracle licensee. Will you end up paying more for Oracle Java? If you already have a Java subscription with desktops and processors, will Oracle force you under the new employee metric in your next renewal? The Financial Impact of Oracle’s New Java Pricing This allows SAM teams to focus on other license compliance risks. However, for organizations with smaller Oracle footprints, the employee metric means they no longer need to track Oracle Java deployments.
The new employee metric limits organizations to no more than 50,000 processors 3 meaning that those with large Java deployments may still need to demonstrate consumption to Oracle and could still be at risk of an audit. So what’s the catch? Java Deployment RestrictionsĪ move to an employee license metric allows licensees to deploy Oracle Java without restriction, right? Wrong. Even better, an employee metric means no more Oracle Java audits for most licensees. Therefore, not having to track Java deployments will be a welcome change by many Oracle licensees.
Measuring and reporting Java consumption was no easy task, even for seasoned Oracle license professionals. This embedded entitlement identified that if a desktop or server was only running Oracle programs with Oracle Java those devices would not require a Java subscription. Further complicating this measurement is the embedded Oracle entitlement for Oracle Java SE with many Oracle programs. Oracle licensees typically had to report on the number of desktops (end-user workstations) and processors available to servers that use Oracle Java SE. This forced Oracle licensees to monitor and measure their Java deployments at least once a year for purposes of renewing their Oracle Java subscription. Oracle’s previous Java pricing model was based on the location where Java SE was installed/running. How will Oracle’s new pricing model impact your organization? Will you have to pay more Oracle Java? However, there are still some potential drawbacks to the new pricing model, particularly for organizations with a disproportionate number of employees compared to servers/desktops. This change is a welcome one for many licensees, as it eliminates the need for annual monitoring and measurement of Java deployments. Oracle is now licensing Oracle Java SE by “Employees. Gone are the days of calculating how many desktops are running Oracle Java or how many processors are associated with servers running it. Oracle recently announced a major change to Oracle Java subscription pricing.
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