Interview

Ed Burns

Q: Hi, Ed Burns. Why don’t you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your current role?

A: My current role, as we’ll talk about, is a happy extension of my previous roles.

I work at Microsoft and I am the principal architect overseeing how Jakarta EE runtimes can find a home on Azure. In this role, I work with partnerships with the three main commercial Java app server vendors that are still producing well-used products: IBM, Red Hat, and Oracle. These vendors are responsible for multi-million-dollar accounts in the world of running Java EE workloads. They run critical Java EE workloads for all sectors of the economy, from finance to energy, technology, and communications.

We’ve got customers that are doing all of these things, and they have workloads that they want to continue to derive corporate value from by moving them into the cloud. Moreover, they want to do so in a way that lets them capitalize on the cloud value...