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- VMware's Drastic Switch From Processor to Core Licensing 2024: Potential for a 5X-40X Surge in Your VMware Software spend
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- 2024 Expert Guide to Oracle VirtualBox Licensing: Navigating Free and Paid Editions for Businesses and Effectively Addressing Oracle Sales Inquiries
- Understanding Licensing and Cost Shift from SAP Solution Manager (SolMan) to Cloud ALM (CALM)
- Demystifying IBM Cloud Pak and premier on Cloud PAK Licensing in 2023
- Comprehensive Guide to SAP Indirect Access and How to measure Digital Access in 2023
- Oracle Java Licensing Changes in 2023: Navigating the Costly New Terrain of Java Employee Universal Subscription
- Oracle's Java Licensing Changes 2023: Optimizing Java Without Cutting a Check to Oracle
- SAP Enhanced Vs SAP Basic Software Licensing Audit
- Comprehensive Guide to Choosing the Perfect SAP HANA License for Your Business
- Decoding SAP FUE: A Comprehensive Guide to Full Usage Equivalents
- Unleash the Power of SAP Licensing: Top 5 Strategies for Substantial Savings
- Comprehensive list of Software Vendors and their Year End Dates
- Java - Think it is Free, Not Anymore!
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You might not know that Java was created by Sun in 1991 and released as a free product with the promise of “Write once and run anywhere”. This resulted in Java being deployed on a multitude of devices like Servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. Oracle purchased Sun in 2010 and then made Java fee based (any commercial use became fee-based) in Jan 2019. And any subsequent release of Java or any new patches to the old Java versions are now actually fee based.
