Microsoft and Azul Systems are teaming up to allow Java developers on Azure and Azure Stack to build and run production Java applications using Zulu Enterprise, the commercially supported edition of ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

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. A couple of weeks ago an anonymous ...

GigaSpaces Technologies has just rolled out the feature-complete beta version of its Cloudify for Azure enterprise Java application platform for on-boarding JEE, Spring and big-data apps to ...

While Windows Azure is designed first and foremost to appeal to .Net developers, Microsoft has been adding tools for those who want to work on cloud apps using PHP, Ruby and even -- gasp -- Java.

Microsoft’s current developer strategy is perhaps best described as pragmatic: Meet developers where they are, not where Microsoft thinks they should be. Redmond has put aside old rivalries, open ...

I was curious what Microsoft's response would be to Google's recent announcement that is allowing developers writing for the Google App Engine cloud platform to develop in Java. The answer? Not much ...

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'For us, this is the perfect match,' says John Montgomery, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of program management for developer tools and services. 'The relationship with this team is not new: ...

Microsoft's big Java on Azure push is moving forward with an update to the Azure toolkit for the IntelliJ IDE, along with the General Availability status for the Azure Spring Apps Enterprise tier.

"We use more Java than one can imagine," Microsoft says on the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK website. The marketing hyperbole notwithstanding, Redmond has been promoting Java to its developer community ...

Microsoft used to consider open source software to be a bad thing. But, as the song goes, that was yesterday. Today, Microsoft is a company on a mission to build as solid a reputation as possible for ...