Article for The New Stack by Darryl Taft
“Java version upgrades are always painful, especially when it has to be done just for compliance reasons or to avoid being on an unsupported version,” Eric Newcomer, CTO at Intellyx, told The New Stack. Newcomer would know, as he has held CTO and other IT executive positions at Credit Suisse, Citi and WSO2.
“In other words, the new features and capabilities of the next Java version may not be providing a business reason to upgrade, so the budget that would otherwise go to implement a business feature has to be allocated to a version upgrade instead, and very often it becomes a last-minute or emergency exercise due to some kind of support issue or vulnerability in an older version, I expect most enterprises facing this type of situation would welcome all the help they can get,” he said.
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