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And also perhaps a rising desire at Amazon to take Oracle down a few notches, as also seen in the recent “uh huh, keep talking Larry” announcements? EG: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/12/stay_classy_jassy_g...

And perhaps also a desire to maintain parity with Azure since they announced Java LTS support via Azul for their customers a couple months ago (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/blog/microsoft-and-azul-sy...).