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Happy dev noises (europe.pub)
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[–] 47 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The company is using old proprietary software that breaks unless a specific java version is used. And don't want to upgrade/switch because it is too expensive.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Isn’t there an openjdk impl in like every major Linux distro repository?

    And so I assume the same would be available for windows?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Some crappy software actively checks for a specific version, and you can't work around that.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Can you edit the byte code with a hex editor to change that check?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    You assumed the switch needs to happen on the JDK. It's actually that we bought this software that depends on the old version with a perpetual license 18 years ago before every decided SaaS was god so we've got another 3 years left before ROI breaks even

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And don't want to upgrade/switch because it is too expensive

    Oh boy, you better have no employees or Oracle will make you pay for their existence:

    https://www.oracle.com/in/a/ocom/docs/corporate/pricing/java-se-subscription-pricelist-5028356.pdf

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