Sun Microsystems plans to release a developer toolkit tailored to Sun’s N1 architecture for IT infrastructure management. Company officials on Friday afternoon also defended the process for publicly ...

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 ...

The announcements come as Sun gears up for a major Sun ONE software launch--including a new version of its Sun ONE Application Server and an integrated software platform--on June 19 in San Francisco.

Red Hat has signed on to participate in Sun Microsystems’ open-source Java Standard Edition (SE) project, OpenJDK, and to coordinate its own Java development efforts for Linux with the project. Red ...

With changes to a licensing program, Sun paves the way for open-source Java application server projects JBoss and Apache to comply with the J2EE standard. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Sun Microsystems has heard from a company concerned about the vetting process of Java and open source, a Sun official said on Wednesday. Lawyers for the concerned company said they cannot be sure the ...