<p>By Adrian Bridgwater, April 11, 2014 Commercialized build of OpenJDK supports latest versions of Java</p><p>Azul Systems has announced the Zulu 8.0 commercialized build of OpenJDK that is compatible and compliant with the Java SE 8 standard. Zulu 8.0 is available immediately and freely downloadable.</p><p>Zulu 8.0 offers a free, 100% open source, commercialized version of OpenJDK Verified with the OpenJDK Java Compatibility Kit (JCK) for Java SE 8. It runs on Windows Server, Windows, and multiple Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, CentOS, and Ubuntu.</p><p>The software is integrated with MS Open Tech's Microsoft Azure plug-in for Eclipse Java tooling and is cloud-ready with supported on the Microsoft Azure Cloud, Amazon AWS, and on Rackspace.</p><p><a href="http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/azul-extends-zulu-runtime-for-java-to-ja/240167006">Keep reading...</a></p>