Case Study: University of Southern Queensland avoids $500,000 in Java cost increases with Azul Core

University of Southern Queensland avoids $500,000 in Java costs in 2 weeks with Azul Systems

The University of Southern Queensland faced a significant budget challenge when Oracle changed its Java licensing model, which threatened to increase their annual costs by approximately $500,000 AUD. They needed a more transparent and affordable solution to avoid compliance risks and high expenses, and they required professional support that a free OpenJDK distribution could not provide.

Azul Systems provided the solution with Azul Core, a supported OpenJDK offering with functional equivalence to Oracle Java. The university completed a seamless migration in just two weeks, successfully upgrading over 1,000 applications with minimal disruption. By switching to Azul, the university completely avoided the $500,000 cost increase and eliminated its Oracle Java licensing risk.

University of Southern Queensland

Andrew Yong

Manager of Enterprise Applications at UniSQ