Microsoft puts Java on Cloud.

[Geek-9pm]

Yes. Microsoft puts Java on Cloud.
It is in the august 12 issue of Computerworld.

The article explains MS will offer Java on the Azure cloud service.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241519/Microsoft_adds_Java_to_its_Windows_Azure_cloud_service

But this is next breaking news. PCWorld already reported the same back in July.

... Rabellino announced the Azure addition at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, being held this week in Portland, Oregon. “Customers will be able to run their Java workload in a fully supported environment,” he said.

Microsoft will offer the Java Standard Edition (Java SE) by the end of the year both as a stand-alone PaaS (platform as a service) and as component of a Windows Server IaaS (infrastructure as a service), both on the Windows Azure service.  ...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045106/microsoft-to-offer-java-as-a-service.html

What is odd is that Oracle does not offer a suitable package to fill the need for MS customers. Or is that to be expected?

But of course you can get Java for your Windows Desktop. This post is about how MS has to get somebody to do a Java run time for its cloud service and platforms other than a desktop.

Just sounds strange.  Wait. There is more from the PCWord item.

...Although Rabellino did not say why Microsoft hired an outside contractor to maintain the OpenJDK, the move is not a surprising one, given Microsoft’s rocky history with Java. The company launched its own version of the language, called J++, in 1996, the year after Java itself debuted.  ...

Yeah, now I remember. Good old J++

[BC_Programmer]

Yes. Microsoft puts Java on Cloud.
It is in the august 12 issue of Computerworld.

The article explains MS will offer Java on the Azure cloud service.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241519/Microsoft_adds_Java_to_its_Windows_Azure_cloud_service

But this is next breaking news. PCWorld already reported the same back in July.http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045106/microsoft-to-offer-java-as-a-service.html

What is odd is that Oracle does not offer a suitable package to fill the need for MS customers. Or is that to be expected?

But of course you can get Java for your Windows Desktop. This post is about how MS has to get somebody to do a Java run time for its cloud service and platforms other than a desktop.

Just sounds strange.  Wait. There is more from the PCWord item.
Yeah, now I remember. Good old J++

J++ was not Microsoft's own version of the language. It wasn't until they added features to Java to make it less of a crappy language that Sun started to get a bit annoyed. (Delegates, Event Handlers, sane native method calls, callbacks, I could go on...