May 22, 2006—Among the biggest news stories at this week’s JavaOne conference was Sun Microsystems’ long-awaited announcement that it will be releasing the industry-standard Java programming language ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. launched a portal site for its Java programming language today as it inches closer to making the Java code open-source, a company executive said. The Web site details the company ...

Sun Microsystems has followed up an announcement that its Solaris server operating system will have an open-source flavor with a similar promise for its Java technology. Raghavan Srinivas, Java ...

While acknowledging obstacles remain, a Sun official on Tuesday left open the possibility that Sun might offer its Java programming language under an open source format. While acknowledging obstacles ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — If pressed to vote yea or nay, James Gosling said this week at the JavaOne conference here that he would cast his ballot in favor of making core pieces of Java open-source, even though ...

In November 2006, Sun Microsystems began making all of its Java technology implementations open source, offering them under the GPL. More than two years later, reactions are mixed as to what exactly ...

Sun Microsystems President and COO Jonathan Schwartz discussed partner opportunities around open-source technology, Web services, service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and Java Business Integration ...

"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, during his opening keynote at last week's JavaOne conference in San ...

Azul has acquired Payara, adding a Jakarta EE application server business to Azul’s Java runtime and support portfolio. The combined company is positioning itself as a commercially supported, ...

How pervasive is open source software? Extremely pervasive. Is it getting any easier to work with? Not much easier, sorry. That's the prognosis of a recent survey of 872 IT managers, which finds eight ...