Looking to spar with Oracle over enterprise deployments of Java, Azul on October 22 unveiled migration providers to assist IT groups transition from Oracle’s Java SE (Standard Edition) releases to Azul’s Zulu builds of OpenJDK.
Services supplied as a part of this system embrace stock and utilization auditing software program in addition to application-level testing and verification. The objective is to assist organizations transfer their Java “estate” shortly and securely from Oracle to Azul’s Java. Azul argues that Oracle’s current licensing and industrial assist pricing adjustments have annoyed customers, who’re in search of cost-effective, open supply options.
Two ranges of migration providers can be found from Azul and its companions:
- Level 1, migration, with a typical situation involving a corporation that wishes emigrate straight from Oracle Java to Azul Zulu builds of OpenJDK. A turnkey migration course of is obtainable.
- Level 2, modernization, is a partner-led service for purchasers who need to modernize functions from older Java variations to extra present releases, resembling transferring from functions primarily based on Java 6 or Java 7 to Java eight or Java 11, that are long-term assist (LTS) releases of the platform.
Azul mentioned it might current important price financial savings over what Oracle presents so far as enterprise assist providers for traditional Java. An annual contract for Azul Zulu Enterprise, for 25 servers and 100 desktops, prices $22,072, for instance. For Oracle Java, desktop pricing is $2.50 per consumer per thirty days, or decrease with tiered quantity reductions. Oracle’s per-processor pricing to be used of Java SE on servers and/or cloud deployments is $25 per thirty days or decrease.
The Java merchandise from Azul and Oracle are primarily based on the identical underlying supply code developed within the OpenJDK venture, and they’re similar with regard to specification compliance and efficiency, Azul mentioned. Azul Zulu might be downloaded from the Azul web site.
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