SAN FRANCISCO -- In what might be one of the most anticipated appearances of the Oracle-Google trial thus far, former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz testified on behalf of Google at the U.S.

The server giant will trumpet the latest improvements to its ambitious software project at its JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. released two bundled packages of Java software today — one for desktops and one for servers — and announced pricing moves intended to bolster its position in the Java software ...

Sun Microsystems officials introduced on Thursday Sun’s upgrades to three Java-based technologies, including the company’s latest implementation of enterprise Java. But they were silent on the ...

Last May, Sun released Java Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE, known in previous editions as J2EE), the latest version of the standards platform that underpins many commercial and open-source application ...

The Santa Clara, Calif., company said the cross-platform technology it created more than 10 years ago will be available under the GNU General Public License, which is the same contract that governs ...

It’s no surprise that Sun is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor’s choice of open source license. In all the open sourcing of its software to date ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. disclosed pricing details Tuesday for Project Orion, an initiative that aims to radically simplify the way Sun delivers server software to its customers and in the process, Sun ...

Sun Microsystems, Orange, Vodafone Group and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications are taking steps to make it a little easier — and cheaper — for software developers to bring Java programs to mobile ...

The Apache Software Foundation is in a dispute with Sun Microsystems over a license for the Java technology compatibility kit needed for the Apache Harmony project. Harmony is an open source ...

Sun Microsystems has fixed five security bugs in Java that expose computers running Windows, Linux and Solaris to hacker attack. The flaws are "highly critical," according to an advisory from Secunia ...

"At this point, it's not a question of whether. It's a question of how," said Rich Green, Sun's recently returned software chief, in an opening keynote address at the JavaOne conference in San ...