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Azul more than doubled its channel partner count and saw significant channel success in 2020
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Azul, provider of the world’s most trusted open-source Java platform, today announced that in 2020 it more than doubled the number of channel partners that sell, support and enable its products. The company signed 27 new partners worldwide last year, bringing the total to 53 at the end of 2020 and closed several seven-figure dollar transactions led by partners. Over the last two years, Azul has increased its channel business by more than 5x.
In April 2019, Oracle introduced a new Java pricing model. This led many of its customers to reconsider their Java licensing and support and explore Java runtime alternatives, including Azul’s supported builds of OpenJDK. According to a survey of 432 senior Java decision-makers commissioned by Azul and conducted by a leading global independent strategic consulting fir