Our Story
When commercial support for GlassFish ended in 2014, Payara Server was created as a fully-supported drop-in replacement. Payara Services was born in 2016 to offer support solutions for the application server. By 2017, Payara Services had joined The Eclipse Foundation and the Payara Platform expanded to include Payara Micro and comprehensive commercial support options for development projects, in-production support, and consultancy solutions. In 2018, Payara Platform 5 was released and a new EU office was created to further support the rapidly growing company. Early 2021 saw the company achieve the UK’s most prestigious business award, the Queens Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category.
Our Mission
Payara’s Mission is to grow a sustainable business that imagines and creates innovative, trusted, open-source software and services that are widely used, deliver value and are loved by our users.
Our Vision
Payara is trusted as a global, commercial, open source company. As a successful business, we are aware of our responsibilities so we work to sustainable principles that benefit our customers, community and workers.
We are recognised as a leader in creating innovative infrastructure software for now and the future. We provide industry-leading expertise and services that enable our users across a diverse range of industries to create world-class solutions.
We are a growing, diverse and engaged team who have the freedom and support to develop our skills and potential. We are focused on delivering our mission while respecting and caring about each other.
We are proud to nurture and grow an open, vibrant, collaborative community that builds on the needs of all to advance our software and services while providing support, stability and security.
Our Values
Payara’s corporate values are the guiding principles on which we base our relationships and drive our approach with the community, our customers, and our internal affairs.
Community
Building strong relationships, both internally and externally to the business, is a fundamental part of working at Payara, and Payara team members make an effort to be inclusive, supportive and respectful of everyone.
Excellence
We believe we can achieve excellence and have a hunger for it in all areas of day-to-day performance. This means benchmarking performance against the best and not limiting ourselves, always looking to create and improve best practice for ourselves, our Team and the business.
Growth
We are devoted to developing, growing and improving the business through our work, and we each personally aim to take advantage of the many ways we can expand our knowledge and expertise via the available training, learning and professional development opportunities.
Openness
We remain open to new ideas and have transparency in what we do and a willingness to share with others. These are all fundamental Payara behaviours.
Initiative
As proactive members of the Team, using initiative involves problem solving, flexibility and a willingness to push boundaries for the agreed benefit of everyone both internally and externally.
Passion
Being passionate about what we do is fundamental at Payara. Having passion means having compelling energy, investment and determination in our outlook and actions, and it is the basis for all other behaviours. Each individual’s passion is recognised by fellow colleagues and by management.
Trust
We always aim to deliver on our promises and have the confidence to speak up if they become unachievable.
Our Culture
We are a growing, diverse and engaged team who have the freedom and support to develop our skills and potential. We are focused on delivering our mission while respecting and caring about each other.
The Payara Team is International
In addition to team members stationed at our main office in the UK and our office in Portugal, Payara team members can be found working remotely all over the globe.
Shaping the Future of the Industry
We are helping to shape the future of the industry to meet the needs of our customers as Project Management Committee and Solutions Members of the Eclipse Foundation, and as Strategic Members of the Jakarta EE and Eclipse MicroProfile working groups.
In order to ensure the continuous development of the Jakarta EE project, Payara Services is a project lead for Eclipse GlassFish, the Jakarta EE compatible implementation. GlassFish is primarily suitable for development projects and for testing and pushing Jakarta EE forward, as it includes all required and optional Jakarta EE APIs and passes all Jakarta EE TCKs. We recommend GlassFish users migrate to Payara Platform Enterprise for mission critical production environments to take advantage of our included support services, stability, and security.
Our Social Responsibility
Payara is trusted as a global, commercial, open source company. As a successful business, we are aware of our responsibilities, so we work to sustainable principles that benefit our customers, community and workers.
Where You Can Find Us
Head Office
Payara Services Ltd
Malvern Hills Science Park
Geraldine Road
Malvern
WR14 3SZ
United Kingdom
Portugal Office
Rua Nova de Sao Pedro no. 54,
2nd floor, room D,
9000 048 Funchal,
Ilha da Madeira,
Portugal
UK: +44 207 754 0481
International: +1 415 523 0175
E-mail: info@payara.fish