One-time licenses won’t be available for Java SE 8 or later, but separate support contracts also go away Oracle has revamped its commercial support program for Java SE (Standard Edition), opting ...

In January, Oracle replaced the Java SE and Java SE Desktop subscription with the new Java SE Universal subscription that charges enterprise on a per employee metric instead of a per processor or ...

Oracle in January announced a change to its Java license that bases pricing on the number of employees in an organization, rather than on instances in use like they have in the past.

While Java EE is not nearly as strategic to the company as Java SE, it still indirectly contributes to the more than 70 percent of Oracle revenue that comes from software and support license sales.

It's been a long wait, but it's finally here: Oracle announced today the general availability of Java SE 9, the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 and the Java EE 8 Software Development Kit.

While Oracle CEO Larry Ellison focuses his attention on the America's Cup sailing race, Oracle is rushing to keep up in another race, the one to get its Java SE (Standard Edition) in the cloud.

Oracle did a great job getting Java SE 9 released earlier this year, but modularity and various smaller updates may not be enough to get users to quickly migrate to JDK 9.

Java 9 -- better known as Java SE 9 Platform Specification, or Java SE 9 (JDK 9) -- comes nearly three years after the release of Java 8. In addition to Java 9, Oracle announced the availability of ...

The Java SE patch set comes after Oracle released some 128 fixes for its database, middleware, and applications in April. Oracle came under fire in recent months over Java security after a spate ...