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Re:Zulu: Multi-platform Commercialized OpenJDK by blinkingled on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @10:47PM (#8496484)
Wow, they seem to be going out of their way to avoid mentioning any benefits I might get from using Zulu over OpenJDK or Oracle JDK for that matter.

Knowing Azul through Cliff Click's excellent blog posts I was expecting to see better GC, scalability work etc. but nope - this just seems to be rebranded JDK that is open source and has Enterprise support. Given Oracle they might have some success but that's about it.

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Re:Zulu: Multi-platform Commercialized OpenJDK by sqrt17 on Thursday October 23, 2014 @04:27AM (#8497189)
Azul are just making sure that there's some enterprise-viable alternative to getting screwed by Oracle.

As in, Oracle installing adware with their Windows installer is currently damaging to Java as a brand, and making Oracle Java be less of a "sane default" than Sun Java was.

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Re:Zulu: Multi-platform Commercialized OpenJDK by giltene on Thursday October 23, 2014 @12:16PM (#8498981)
Zulu is just a binary distro of OpenJDK. The other cool stuff you mention (better GC, scalability, consistent latency, etc.) is all in the Zing product line.
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