SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems said new software technology makes Java run at least five times faster on gadgets such as cell phones, a move that could help make Java more useful and therefore thwart ...

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WASHINGTON -- Microsoft and rival Sun Microsystems delivered a plan to a federal judge on Monday laying out how Microsoft will obey a court order to distribute Sun's Java programming language in its ...

April 26, 2004—Sun Microsystems’s surprise rapprochement with Microsoft is good news for the Java platform and good news for developers, a software architect says. Reece Robinson, an architect at ...

(First post seemed to disappear so...)<P>This is slightly off topic but of benefit to those in here who work on cross platform systems but don't read the NT Forum ...

MS' recent settlement with Sun means that MS can support their JVM now.<BR><BR>Anyway, MS' JIT tends to have better performance than Sun's, but the difference is often within 10%. Sun make up for it ...

The Microsoft Open Technologies group previewed the MS Open Tech Tools Plugin for Microsoft Services, an initial preview of a new plugin for JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE and Android Studio IDE.