Looking to spar with Oracle over enterprise deployments of Java, Azul on October 22 unveiled migration services to help IT teams transition from Oracle’s Java SE (Standard Edition) releases to Azul’s Zulu builds of OpenJDK.
Services offered as part of the program include inventory and usage auditing software as well as application-level testing and verification. The goal is to help organizations move their Java “estate” quickly and securely from Oracle to Azul’s Java. Azul argues that Oracle’s recent licensing and commercial support pricing changes have frustrated users, who are looking for cost-effective, open source alternatives.