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by sverhagen 3189 days ago
In the organization I work for, we're contemplating a move from Oracle JDK to OpenJDK, when we move from 8 to 9. I'm still nervous about OpenJDK from some historical scary stories of things not working well in OpenJDK or at least different. I've not found much on the subject, or even on OpenJDK as a functioning open source project. (Or is it just a code drop of the Oracle JDK?) If anyone has good insights, or links to some realistic comparisons, I'd be thrilled.
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Note: Oracle is my employer, the following statements are my own β€” (insert Safe Harbor notification)

Good news regarding any trepidation on the differencesa between the runtimes β€” recently we announced that there will no longer be a difference between OpenJDK and OracleJDK [1]

To quote: β€œThe Oracle JDK will primarily be for commercial and support customers once OpenJDK binaries are interchangeable with the Oracle JDK (target late 2018)”

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/faster-and-easi...