Raising its stakes in open-source software, IBM plans to create an open-source project around Cloudscape, a specialized Java database, CNET News.com has learned. In conjunction with the LinuxWorld ...

Azul Systems, a company developing special-purpose hardware to help servers run Java programs faster, plans to announce Wednesday that it's won its first endorsement: a support deal from IBM Global ...

Azul Systems plans to announce Wednesday that it's won its first endorsement: a support deal from IBM Global Services. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Rival open-source efforts to simplify development of Java software are inching closer together to battle a common enemy: Microsoft. Two open-source development-tool projects--Eclipse, backed by IBM, ...

Representatives from IBM and Sun will meet in a week to 10 days time to discuss IBM’s proposal for creating an open source version of Sun’s Java technology, an IBM executive said Thursday. Sun wants ...

“We expect for partners of all types to have a role to play,” IBM VP Keri Olson told CRN. IBM plans to preview its upcoming Watsonx Code Assistant for Z generative artificial intelligence-assisted ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- There once was a time when IBM was arguably the most dominant force in the enterprise Java community. And yet at Oracle Code One 2019, signs all pointed to how Microsoft wants in, ...

More than a decade ago, Google re-implemented the Java programming language as part of its new Android mobile operating system. Oracle, the owner of Java, then sued Google for copyright infringement ...

Google's open source program manager speculated that IBM ownership of Sun could have prevented the current battle between Sun and Apache Software Foundation Google’s chief of open source believes an ...

Enterprise Java applications will be able to run directly on Palm Tungsten handhelds now that Palm has licensed IBM’s WME (WebSphere Micro Environment) Java run-time environment, the companies ...

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link IBM is officially backing Google against Oracle in what's expected to be a major tech showdown before the US Supreme Court. Big Blue plans to file ...