A new report from the Java vendor Azul claims that 88% of firms are contemplating shifting off of Oracle Java to a different various because of rising prices and restrictive insurance policies from Oracle, amongst different points.
Oracle modified its licensing mannequin for Java two years in the past to base the associated fee on the variety of staff a company has relatively than the Java situations they’ve in use.
Since then, organizations have been considering options, and 72% of respondents have been already enthusiastic about it when surveyed in 2023.
The highest 5 causes for wanting to maneuver on from Oracle embody value (42%), choice for open-source (40%), Oracle’s gross sales ways (37%), uncertainty round altering licenses and pricing (36%), and restrictive Oracle insurance policies (33%).
The report additionally discovered that Java workloads make up greater than half of complete cloud compute prices for nearly two-thirds of respondents. Moreover, 71% of firms have greater than 20% of unused cloud compute capability, and firms are beginning to work to handle this concern by aligning their cloud investments with their precise utilization. Thirty-five p.c of respondents are utilizing extra environment friendly compute situations and processes and 24% are using a high-performance JDK.
Java can be persevering with to develop in reputation for constructing AI performance, with 50% of organizations utilizing it to construct AI performance, surpassing Python and JavaScript at Java-centric firms.
AI adoption is also resulting in 72% of organizations saying they should enhance their compute capability to help these demanding workloads.
”Whereas the survey targeted on organizations already invested in Java, it does spotlight that Java builders proceed to innovate with Java, leveraging the programming language’s strong library ecosystem to embrace rising applied sciences like Al. This additional solidifies Java’s position as a cornerstone for contemporary, future-ready software improvement,” Azul wrote.
For this report, Azul teamed up with Dimensional Analysis and surveyed 2,039 Java professionals around the globe.