Sun Microsystems and open-source software maker JBoss Group have resolved a long-standing dispute over a key Java standard. The two companies on Tuesday announced that the JBoss Group has licensed ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will open-source Java--it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said Tuesday. Open-source advocates have urged Sun for years to open-source the Java ...

Sun Microsystems announced Tuesday it has finished the process of making the bulk of its core Java technology available as open-source software under the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2).

VARBusiness:How has your original vision for Java changed or evolved over the years? Any big surprises? A: The thing that's hard about that question is that there are just so many interesting things.

Sun Microsystems is counting on the ubiquitous nature of Java to help its JavaFX technology compete in the rich Internet application (RIA) space against rivals Adobe Systems and Microsoft. A browser ...

Big Blue will create versions of its server software for Sun's operating system and will support Java for an additional 10 years. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. will cut developers loose from the wired world next week at the JavaOne conference when it details the next version of its Forte for Java developer tools. The new version will be ...

Microsoft Corp. must distribute Java technology from Sun Microsystems Inc. in every copy of Windows and Internet Explorer that it ships, a U.S. federal judge ruled today. U.S. District Judge Frederick ...