🧠 Food for thought

Implications, context, and why it matters.

Azul’s Payara deal reaches long running Jakarta Enterprise Edition (Jakarta EE) users

• Customers include BMW Group and Hermes 1. Swisscom and the United States Coast Guard also buy from it 1. The company provides Java application servers, and these organizations run enterprise Java applications 1.
• Many use Payara Server Enterprise, built on Eclipse GlassFish (the open-source reference implementation of Jakarta EE) 2. It supports Jakarta EE workloads 2.
• The firm joined the Eclipse Foundation (a nonprofit that hosts open-source software projects) in 2017 2. It is a Strategic member of the Jakarta EE Working Group (the standards body that steers Jakarta EE specifications) 2. Other members include Oracle and IBM 2. Fujitsu and Red Hat also sit on it 2.

What systems integrators (IT consulting firms that implement plus modernize enterprise software) could do after Azul’s Payara deal

• Payara provides 24/7 support for production, development, and migration 3. An acquisition can push some customers to revisit support or modernization plans, which opens doors for third party consulting 3.
• Cloud managed service providers (MSPs) can work with Payara Cloud users (a managed cloud service for deploying Payara-based applications) that need help to run or modernize application server deployments 3.
• Vendors that focus on Jakarta EE containerization (packaging applications to run in containers) can target organizations that use Payara Server or Payara Micro (a lightweight runtime for microservices) 13. Many of these teams want a more Kubernetes native setup (designed to run on the Kubernetes container orchestration platform) 13. Sectors in Payara’s case studies include automotive and logistics 13. They also include telecoms and the public sector 13.