Microsoft acquires ZeroTurnaround for undisclosed amount

ZeroTurnaround Ltd., a developer of Java development productivity tools, announced today that it has been acquired by Microsoft Corp. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. ZeroTurnaround will stop any further developments of JavaRebel and JSPWeaver and will buy back all the licenses sold so far.

“The deal fits with Microsoft’s strategy of migrating Java developers to the .NET platform and will increase the conversion rate greatly” said Alain Crozier, Corporate Vice President and CFO, from Sales, Marketing and Services Group of Microsoft Corp. “We saw ZeroTurnaround as a threat to our .NET development platform, enabling Java developers to be as productive as the developers on modern platforms. We had to put a stop to it.”

Rumours say that this can severly affect the IBM and SUN deal and will send Java development back as far as the Stone Age.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 at 12:21 pm by Toomas Römer and is filed under report. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

  • http://www.beelucid.com Megan Adams

    Ha ha. Good one.

    Not a funny: I do have a tool that migrates from VB.Net to Java, with a free trial, etc.

    VBeeJ For Java has an advanced type inference mechanism that creates interfaces and stubs for any unknown types and methods. Your converted Java code compiles, including all calls into the .Net platform that are unknown on the Java platform.

    VBeeJ For Java also has a plugin architecture to support .Net API’s running on top of Java. So, for example, the free trial download demo generates the plugin for the .Net XML API. You can actually use the .Net XML API in Java, in any Java context, using this plugin.

    link: http://www.beelucid.com/products/vbj

  • Toomas

    Be careful, you might acquired also, hopefully not on 1st of April :)

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