Azul Systems, Inc., a privately held company, develops runtime platforms for executing Java-based applications. Founded in March 2002, Azul Systems is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in London, United Kingdom; Saint Petersburg, Russia and Bangalore, India. Azul produces Zing, a Java Virtual Machine and runtime platform for Java applications that is designed to remove memory limitations and scale elastically. The company was formerly known for its Vega Java Compute Appliances, specialized hardware designed to massively scale the usable compute resources available to Java applications. Zing utilizes and improves on the software technology developed for the Vega hardware.
TmaxSoft is a South Korea-based multinational corporation specializing in enterprise software. It was founded in 1997 by Professor Daeyeon Park, former Professor at KAIST. The company is separated into 2 businesses: TmaxSoft and TmaxData. Currently, TmaxData is run as an affiliated company. The company started as a middleware solution provider. It is now the largest provider of enterprise software systems in South Korea, as of 2007 and is a member of the JCP. Its middleware products include Tmax, JEUS, and the WebtoB. Other products include Tibero, ProSync, Sysmaster, ProFrame, OpenFrame, and big data solutions.
