Do you need to purchase Oracle JAVA licenses? To be completely sure check out Oracle FAQ’s at the following URL  https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/oracle-jdk-faqs.html

If you have decided, you require licenses for your deployment here is how to calculate costs.

Desktop

Commercial use of JAVA on a desktop is per user of that desktop. If there is one user it is one license, if there are five users on that desktop it is a five seat license subscription.

The cost is €26.94 per user for a 12-month Oracle Java SE Desktop Subscription. Multiyear subscriptions are available.

Server

Commercial use of JAVA on a server is by a processor metric. The cost is €269.43 per processor for a 12-month Oracle Java SE Subscription processor.

  • All processors in a physical system count for licensing regardless of any virtualisation technology.
  • The metric is a processor not CPU socket
  • Where there are multiple systems in a cluster, all need licensing if they are going to be using JAVA.
  • There is a 0.5 multiplier on this processor metric.

Example: An x86 Server with two 18-Core CPU’s = 36 processors. With the 0.5 multiplier that comes to 18 Processor Java SE Subscription. Cost per year is therefore 18 * €269.43 = €4,949.74.

Discounts

These subscriptions are non-discountable unless the quantity is in excess of 1000 licenses for desktops and 100 for servers. Prices correct as of 31/10/2019.

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