_G_glass·Jul 25, 2025
SAP has also a fork: https://github.com/SAP/SapMachine.
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SapMachine
Java2018–2025
SAP / SapMachine
SapMachine
An OpenJDK release maintained and supported by SAP
3Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
630GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
An OpenJDK release maintained and supported by SAP
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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- ojdkbuild/ojdkbuild · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by year4 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2018-11-14 15:59:52 UTC to 2025-07-25 07:59:37 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourceshttps://github.com/corretto/corretto-8
https://www.eclipse.org/openj9/
https://github.com/SAP/SapMachine
In OpenJDK is now on GitHubJava Licensing:
If you want to pay for a supported Java, with long term ongoing patches: call a commercial vendor of Java such as Oracle, Azul Systems, etc.
If you want a free and open source Java runtime, use Open JDK. Some sources of OpenJDK pledge to backport bug fixes from newer versions for some number of years. Or you can simply make sure your product continues to run on newer versions -- which for Java, according to history, has been easy to do.
Where to get Open JDK:
Adopt Open JDK
https://adoptopenjdk.net/
https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK
https://github.com/ojdkbuild/ojdkbuild
Open JDK
http://openjdk.java.net/
Azul Systems Zulu
http://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu/
Amazon
https://aws.amazon.com/fr/corretto/
https://github.com/corretto
Eclipse
https://www.eclipse.org/openj9/
https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html?variant=openjdk11
Read the rest
&jvm...
https://github.com/eclipse/openj9
Red Hat
https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/download/
https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013
SAP
https://github.com/SAP/SapMachine
BellSoft
https://bell-sw.com/java.html
Oracle JDK -- supported for a limited time unless you pay
https://jdk.java.net/11/
Oracle Binary License Agreement - DANGER Will Robinson!
http://java.oracle.com/
See:
Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK
https://blog.joda.org/2018/09/time-to-look-beyond-oracles-jd...
Java is Still Free 2.0.0
https://medium.com/@javachampions/java-is-still-free-2-0-0-6...
You can get Open JDK from any of the following places on them intarweb tubes, and they don't seem to fracture the ecosystem. Linux is available from many places, it may seem fractured, yet Linux seems to be taking over the world. Even Microsoft now "loves" Linux.
https://aws.amazon.com/fr/corretto/
https://github.com/corretto
https://adoptopenjdk.net/
https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK
https://github.com/ojdkbuild/ojdkbuild
http://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu/
https://jdk.java.net/11/
https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/download/
https://github.com/SAP/SapMachine
https://bell-sw.com/java.html
In Corretto – No-cost, multiplatform, developer-preview distribution of OpenJDK