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It is bit surprising that they do not offer Java UBI image, considering that RH is one of the biggest Java vendors. Instead they are offering dotnet images of all things.

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Unless you consider ancillary information like, IBM owns Redhat and hates Oracle, and Oracle has decided to extract money for anything Java + Enterprise, and UBI is targeted for Enterprise customers.

When you consider that you realize that adding a Java UBI image would just set them up for a fight with Oracle and delay their ability to get moving with UBI.

If you consider news like https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/leadership-op...

.. it doesn't seem they're hugely afraid of openjdk

IBM does not yet own RedHat, the deal will close in another couple of months. IBM cannot influence anything RedHat does yet.

I actually see this as another reason to stay below the 'lawsuit radar.' A quick search doesn't seem to turn up anything that looks like a showstopper for the acquisition so presumably while it isn't "done" it is likely to complete, would you agree?

Red Hat already distributes Java in the form of openjdk. Surely the packaging format is irrelevant?

Ah, I understand that former Sun employees have a sword to fight with Oracle, but no one else, besides a timid IBM offer, was that interested into buying Sun assets.

Additionally IBM, Red-Hat and Oracle, collaborate on OpenJDK development and are the few set of companies that actually contribute new language features, with Oracle still having like 90% of contributions.

IBM have their own JVM implementation - they could ship that. Or ship their own build of the OpenJDK like many people do.

We are working on it. We provide the openjdk package in UBI now, you can build a container image from the base. I plan on publishing a blog entry soon, explaining how. Also, we are working on releasing a pre-built image.

Yes that's kind of strange. That's why I've created one for OpenJDK 8 and 11 yesterday https://hub.docker.com/r/ubi8/openjdk

Java is available for installation from the base UBI image:

  $ docker run --rm registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi yum search openjdk
  java-11-openjdk.x86_64 : OpenJDK Runtime Environment 11
  java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64 : OpenJDK Runtime Environment 8
  java-11-openjdk-devel.x86_64 : OpenJDK Development Environment 11
  java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64 : OpenJDK Development Environment 8

openjdk 11 rhel8 image for openshift shipped yesterday

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