Sun Microsystems made a flurry of announcements centered around its Solaris 10 operating system Wednesday. The news included the release of a new version of its Java Enterprise System (Java ES) ...

VMware announced this week that it has signed an agreement to acquire SpringSource, the company behind the open source Spring and Grails frameworks. The $362 million acquisition raises some puzzling ...

SANTA CLARA, CA–June 18, 2007–Real Time Innovations (RTI), The Real Time Middleware Experts, today announced that it has integrated RTI Data Distribution Service with the Sun Java Real-Time System ...

At the recent Oracle OpenWorld event, Oracle announced a series of new enhancements to its Java middleware stack, which incorporates application server and Java tools from last year's BEA acquisition.

The acquisition marks a moment in enterprise Java innovation and builds on nearly eight years of collaboration between Azul and Payara, according to Azul. This collaboration between with the two began ...

Red Hat this week made available its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.0, the foundation for the vendor's new Java-based middleware strategy and a core element of its emerging cloud plans.

Oracle's debut of Java Standard Edition 7 in July was a significant event on several fronts. The release was the first major update to the development platform in nearly five years. It also marked the ...

Would the Java community thrive as well under Oracle’s control as it did under Sun Microsystems’? Vendors of Java products seem split about the question. Mark Little, who is Red Hat’s chief ...

Sun Microsystems is moving more of its software into the open-source realm. But the company will stop short of handing over the keys to Java itself--at least for now. However, the event didn't see ...

Java remains a powerhouse tool for application development, but developers need to take advantage of new design principles to get the most from their applications. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 ...

Microsoft and Oracle may compete head to head in many ways within the database realm, but today the two companies performed the most sweeping cross-join ever as executives from the two companies ...

The two most common transport layer protocols are the transmission control protocol (TCP) and the user datagram protocol (UDP). One of the main differences between the two protocols is reliability.