skip to Main Content

Azul

Last Updated:
Analyst Coverage:

Azul is a privately-owned company that believes firmly in a Java-centric world and is 100% focused on Java. Nevertheless, this doesn’t mean that it is entirely focused on code to the exclusion of other issues important to its customers – such as global support  and Java-related security vulnerabilities in production.

Azul has been around since 2002, which gives it excellent provenance, and was co-founded by its CTO, Gil Tene to be like “a toy store for engineers”. Its current President & CEO is co-founder Scott Sellers.

Originally a hardware appliance vendor, it now only sells software, since the introduction of Azul Platform Prime in 2010. It says that it is focused on the sort of leading-edge and core technologies that can make all of its employees proud.

Its main competition is from Oracle which “owns” (or sponsors) Java , and from various “commercial open source” (supported) Javas. Oracle is certainly not 100% focused on Java, which it acquired with its Sun Microsystems acquisition, and (although Oracle has more Java resources available to it) Azul can compete well with it on technology and support in practice; and it has a more customer-friendly sales model. As for the Open Source competition, not everyone likes Open Source; Azul has unique technology; and it has a more enterprise-friendly approach to managing security patches separately to other patches.

Azul logo

Company Info

Headquarters: 385 Moffett Park Dr., Suite 115, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, USA
Telephone: +1 866 890 8951

Research

00002779 - AZUL-ORACLE InComparison (cover thumbnail)

Java platforms from Azul and Oracle - Focusing on security, performance and value-add

Oracle and Azul produce high quality OpenJDK implementations but are differentiated by their performance Javas and sales/licensing policies.
AZUL InBrief cover thumbnail

The Azul Platform for Java

Azul Platform contains Azul Core (an alternative to Oracle Java) supporting OpenJDK, Azul Prime (a performance Java) and Azul Vulnerability Detection.
Back To Top