Java’s TZDB specification is quite flexible; it can apply a different DST rule for each year for each time zone (e.g., the U.S.’s 2007 DST rule will differ from the 2006 rule).

Oracle in January announced a change to its Java license that bases pricing on the number of employees in an organization, rather than on instances in use like they have in the past.

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