92% of Enterprises Are Ditching Oracle Java — Here's What's Driving the Migration | Simon Ritter
Oracle's Java pricing overhaul has triggered one of the biggest enterprise migrations in years — and it's no longer just a future plan. According to Azul's 2026 State of Java Report, 92% of organizations are concerned about Oracle's pricing, and 81% are actively migrating to OpenJDK right now.
Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO at Azul, breaks down what's actually happening on the ground — from expiring Oracle contracts to the rise of Java in AI workloads, the hidden cost of over-provisioned cloud infrastructure, and how dead code is silently destroying DevOps productivity. He also explains how technologies like CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) are slashing Java startup times from 4 seconds to 40 milliseconds.
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