Episode 165: Lock-in is a lie, or, paying for Java support

Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 1 p.m.

Should you pay for Java support? Now you get to decide! It\u2019s more kindle for the lock-in fire. Also, some uninformed commentary on \u201csurveillance capitalism.\u201d

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  • Oracle Will Charge for Java Starting in 2019.\n\n
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    • What was Java treated like way back in the mid-2000s Sun days?
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    • Should you pay for this kind of thing?
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    • It seems like the answer is just to run an OpenJDK version (Oracle even has one) or pay for support. With OpenJDK you have to do updates/patches yourself\u2026but, then, that\u2019s why you don\u2019t have to pay for it. Pay for it, and you\u2019re paying someone else to worry about that.
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    • Forrester Report:
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    • \u201cThe new subscription's prices for Oracle Java SE support \u2014 $25 a month per server core and $2.50 a month per Java client \u2014 apply to all Oracle Java SE commercial customers. Previously, only Oracle's Java SE Advanced customers paid support fees to obtain security patches among other benefits ($5,000 per processor, plus 22%).\u201d
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    • Oracle to do two Java releases a year, but many companies are way behind and don\u2019t like upgrading. Like, if you haven\u2019t reached release management maturity: \u201cExecuting manual regression tests multiple times each year to stay on the latest version of OpenJDK will prove to be a labor-draining exercise, but so will automating existing manual tests and keeping them up to date.\u201d
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    • Old stuff likes old pricing models: \u201cFor Java runtimes, however, monthly subscriptions have minimal advantage, as most applications are now stable workloads. Most customers don't need pricing that allows them to scale down, as they almost never will.\u201d
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    • From their blog on the topic: \u201cUnder the best of circumstances, a technology base of Java\u2019s size, age, and complexity can\u2019t pivot within six months to new support structures carrying big potential additional costs.\u201d
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  • Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism.\n\n
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    • \u201csurveillance capitalism uses human life as its raw material. Our everyday experiences, distilled into data, have become a privately owned business asset used to predict and mold our behavior, whether we\u2019re shopping or socializing, working or voting.\u201d
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    • If you\u2019re not buying a product, you are a product \u201cgets it wrong. Surveillance capitalism\u2019s real products, vaporous but immensely valuable, are predictions about our future behavior \u2014 what we\u2019ll look at, where we\u2019ll go, what we\u2019ll buy, what opinions we\u2019ll hold \u2014 that internet companies derive from our personal data and sell to businesses, political operatives, and other bidders.\u201d
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    • The question is: what\u2019re other options?
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    • The latest The Weeds episode (Feb 5th, 2019) has a discussion of Facebook making you unhappy, and also compared to the TV rotting your brain meme.
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    • Side-note: what\u2019s up with podcasts (like The Weeds) that don\u2019t have actual show notes in a web page?
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  • Crypto CEO dies with the password to unlock $200+ million of customers' Bitcoin.
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  • Slack makes confidential filing to go public
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  • Former Puppet CEO Sanjay Mirchandani Named CEO Of Commvault
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