Summary: Microsoft paid an undisclosed amount for London-based jClarity to boost its support for Java programming for workloads running in Azure. Established in 2012 and with just five employees, jClarity founded and provides commercial support for AdoptOpenJDK, a free OpenJDK distribution that replaces Oracle’s JDK. A key piece of the puzzle for Microsoft is jClarity’s ML-driven software performance analytics and tuning, which are designed to solve Java performance issues in cloud and on-premise environments. jClarity customers include BNP Paribas, Intel and Uber. Its co-founder and chief executive Martijn Verburg will become Microsoft’s principal engineering group manager. This is another indication of Microsoft’s rush to embrace open source as it tries to widen the scope of its addressable market. Microsoft has been sponsoring AdoptOpenJDK for over a year and uses Java for Azure HDInsight as well as Minecraft. Customers including Adobe, Daimler and Société Générale are running Java workloads on Azure.
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