OKI Signs OEM Agreement With Azul Systems

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA--(Marketwired - April 12, 2016) - Azul Systems (Azul), the award-winning leader in runtime solutions, today announced that Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (hereinafter called as 'OKI'), has signed an OEM agreement which enables it to integrate Azul's open source products into its software platform. OKI chose Azul's technology due to its flexible pricing model and industry-leading support offering.

Based on OpenJDK, Azul's open source solutions currently ship in millions of embedded devices and are built to meet the specific configuration requirements for a given device or application. Azul's runtimes are standards compliant, fully certified by Azul, and require no licensing fees. Azul's runtime products support processors based on the ARM v6, v7 and 32-bit v8 architectures, as well as 32-and 64-bit x86 processors.

A. Nogami, Manager at Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd, said: "We ran Azul's open source solution in a pilot and were very impressed with the support provided by the Azul technical team. Moving forward, we have great confidence that Azul's cost effective technology will enable us to innovate and bring new solutions to market."

Scott Sellers, president and CEO of Azul Systems, said; "Through this agreement OKI developers and product managers gain access to a 100% open source, 'drop-in' replacement for their legacy runtime platform. Azul Systems is committed to updating and evolving its embedded solutions to meet the specific requirements of OKI's evolving go-to-market strategies."

For additional information, regarding Azul's offerings, visit www.azul.com/zulu-embedded.

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Azul Systems, the industry's only company exclusively focused on Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), builds fully supported, certified standards-compliant Java runtime solutions that bring the power of Java to the enterprise, the embedded community and the IoT. Zing is a JVM designed for enterprise Java applications and workloads that require any combination of low latency, high transaction rates, large working memory, and/or consistent response times. Zulu is Azul's certified, freely available open source build of OpenJDK with a variety of flexible support options, available in configurations for the enterprise as well as custom and embedded systems. Zulu Embedded is Azul's 100% open source build of OpenJDK for Intel and ARM-based processors that require custom configurations and long support life cycles. For additional information, visit www.azul.com.

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