Module 8 opens on Oracle's most surprising audit front. Java ran everywhere and was free for most of its life, then Oracle moved commercial use to a paid subscription priced on an employee metric, your whole headcount, not your Java usage, so a firm running Java on 30 servers still licenses all 5,000 employees. This session reads the history, the metric, and the audit campaign built on Oracle's download records and friendly outreach, treated with full module 5 discipline. The decisive fact is that free, equivalent OpenJDK distributions exist, so for most estates the answer is migrate, which removes the metric bill entirely and gives you the leverage to settle any past claim from strength.
A taught session with three knowledge checks: the 5,000 employee firm running Java on 30 servers that the employee metric still charges for all 5,000; the friendly Oracle compliance call that is an audit opening, not customer service; and the large quote answered by a tested OpenJDK migration. It closes with one Java estate decided, audit discipline plus a tested migration turning a headcount bill into a zero license outcome.