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  |  February 8, 2023

Oracle Increases Prices for Java – Look to BigFix for a Solution

Sana Nair
Sana Nair
Product Marketing Manager
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Cyril Englert Co-Author
Solution Architect
Oracle Increases Prices for Java

On January 23, 2023, Oracle announced a new licensing model for Oracle Java that represents a dramatic price increase for large organizations. For example, a 40,000-employee organization will spend USD$2.5M annually on Oracle Java alone.

Previously Oracle Java customers had based their licensing on a less costly combination of client devices and processors for servers, but the new licensing is based on the employee count of an organization with a broad definition of employee that includes full-time, part-time, temporary employees and agents, contractors, outsources, and consultants that support internal business operations. This, combined with Oracle’s existing License Management Service has raised concerns with customers who may have over deployed Oracle Java and face audit risk.

The BigFix Inventory team has extensive technology for discovering Oracle Java. The development worked directly with Oracle engineers to correctly identify Oracle Java and its licensable components. This work is in line with an Oracle Java licensing standard certification program that multiple vendors use today.

To help our customers navigate this Oracle change, BigFix Inventory can identify which machines have Oracle Java to avoid unexpected license compliance issues. Using this information provided by BigFix, you can quickly identify which organizations and services utilizing Oracle Java and determine if it is necessary and required to avoid license exposure.

After this initial work to resolve potential licensing issues with Oracle Java, you can utilize BigFix Inventory to automatically notify you about any new discovery of Oracle Java to avoid unexpected issues from happening.

For additional information on this announcement you can read: Oracle Java Licensing Switches

For complete information on obtaining BigFix Inventory and the value it can bring to Oracle customers and others, visit. For general information visit HCLBigFix,our Customer References page or Contact Us.

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Sana Nair
Sana Nair
Product Marketing Manager
Sana Nair is a Product Marketing Manager in the BigFix team. She is a skilled marketing professional who came from Elsevier - a renowned scientific publishing company, where she created, planned, and implemented integrated marketing campaigns using email, paid search and social media, web, and (virtual) conferences. She also initiated and optimized new ways to reach international audiences. As a fast-track professional for JP Morgan Chase, she managed and coordinated marketing initiatives, tracked results and led marketing process improvement. She is an alumni of the Rutgers Business School where she received a BS in Supply Chain Management.
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Cyril Englert
Cyril EnglertCo-Author
Solution Architect
With over 35 years in Information Technology, my experience have included development, project management, sales and technical support, and business consulting. As an IBM and HCL Business Value Consultant, I help organizations build compelling business cases and financial justications. I support the BigFix Marketing organization as a technical writer and blogger.
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