It’s been a long time since Microsoft brewed its own Java. But now it’s back, with the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, fit and finished for running in the Azure cloud.

Software applications are today's basic operations layer for any corporation, and Java remains the dominant code for enterprise development.

Interest in OpenJDK, and in commercial support for it, has intensified as Oracle Java SE becomes increasingly more expensive.

SAP has joined the OpenJDK project, an Oracle-led initiative producing an open source implementation of Java that also has gained support of such companies as IBM and Apple in recent months. In an ...

Amazon wants to make sure Java is available for free to its users in the long term with the introduction of Amazon Corretto. The solution is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready ...

The open-source IKVM.NET project lets developers run Java apps on .NET. It is a Java virtual machine (JVM) on top of .NET.

Oracle doesn't plan to make the key Java compatibility test suite available under licensing terms that are appropriate for Apache's Harmony project. IBM has responded by shifting its focus away ...

In September of that year, the two companies unveiled Zulu for Windows Server and Windows Azure. In January of this year, the company launched a version of Zulu for both Java 6 and Java 7 running on ...

As for OpenJDK, Apple says that it plans to contribute most of the components required to properly implement Java SE 7 in Mac OS X. That includes "a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual ...

Microsoft's acquisition of jClarity brings instant Java credibility to the software giant, to lure enterprises with Java workloads over to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. Microsoft also inherits the ...