Red Hat Replaces Oracle as OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 11 Steward

Red Hat has assumed stewardship from Oracle over OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11, which strengthens Red Hat’s support for the Java community — particularly enterprise Java developers. Meanwhile, Oracle has little interest in older versions of Java, other than to charge customers for them, and it’s happy to let Red Hat fix and maintain OpenJDK forks, said Cameron Purdy, CEO of xqiz.it, a cloud software startup in Lexington, Mass., and former senior vice president of development at Oracle. Within the next few weeks, Red Hat will release OpenJDK in a Microsoft installer and distribute IcedTea-Web, a free software implementation of Java Web Start and the Java web browser plugin, as part of the Windows OpenJDK distribution.

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