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One of the company with large contribution to the AdoptOpenJDK is jClarity. jClarity got purchased by Microsoft a few days ago. Are we seeing MS more involvement for JDK development from now on? They are pushing it big for .NET platform but the JVM consumption is a huge market opportunity. With MS strategy of going all in in cloud computing, supporting the JVM is a no-brainer to me.

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Honest question, do any of the current jClarity employees actually do upstream OpenJDK development? I know they build tools around Java but I'm not aware that any of the current employees take part in upstream OpenJDK development eg. at least have a JBS account. Maybe I'm just misinformed.

From what I know, jClarity is only contributing financial support to the AdoptOpenJDK platform: build farm, hosting binaries. I don’t think they do backport of securities or bug fixes for expired releases like Redhat or Amazon does.

We had started to submit actual patches and work yes, that will now increase at MSFT. (ex jClaritt CEO here)

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