Windows 'Open Java' Implementation Coming To Microsoft's Azure Cloud

Summary: OpenJDK build for Windows Server in Azure is coming next year.

Microsoft customers that want to run an open source implementation of Java in its Azure cloud will have a new OpenJDK for Windows Server on Azure to choose from.

Microsoft's Open Technologies subsidiary and its partner Azul, maker of the Zing Java runtime for enterprise, plan to release a newly-built OpenJDK for Windows Server on Azure by the end of the year.