Demand for high-performance Java platform alternatives to Oracle Java is expanding sales for Azul.
Scott Sellers, co-founder and CEO at Azul, said customers seek solutions for Java environments and complexity.
“Rising cloud infrastructure costs and enterprise migrations away from Oracle Java fueled our momentum this past year,” Sellers said.
“Organisations prioritise cost-efficient, scaleable and secure Java solutions.”
As a result, Azul’s new customer bookings grew 63% year over year.
Because enterprises increasingly seek control of cloud costs, high performance Java platforms are popular, Sellers suggested.
Also, studies show migration in response to Oracle Java pricing and licensing.
Java platform grows as customers migrate
In Azul’s Java Trends 2025: State of Java Survey and Report, 88% of the 2,000 Java professionals surveyed said they were either leaving or considering leaving Oracle Java.
“Top reasons cited were cost, a preference for open source and Oracle’s sales tactics,” according to Azul.
Azul is based on OpenJDK. Its Platform Prime and Platform Core offerings address various market trends, especially as cloud adoption continues to rise, the vendor said.
Cloud performance and cost optimisation, alongside devops productivity, has become “front of mind” for many C-level and board-level executives, the vendor noted.
Analytics and channel advantage
In addition, Azul cloud analytics solution Intelligence Cloud supports Oracle JDK and any OpenJDK-based Java Virtual Machine (JVM) from any vendor or distribution.
“Using the information already inside JVMs running in production, (it can help) solve two significant devops challenges: alert fatigue from an intractable vulnerability false positive backlog and technical debt from maintaining unused code,” said Azul.
The company has been adding partners across EMEA and APAC. Through the channel, Azul new customer business rose 79% year on year.
“This channel partner growth was due largely to demand for licensing and pricing expertise. This is aligned to IT asset management (ITAM) services and specific migration advisory engagement,” it said.
Also last year, Azul introduced its new Java performance engineering lab.
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