The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

A day after Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said open-source software is his company's friend, a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy has called upon the server maker to ...

Four in five (79%) organizations have either migrated, are migrating, or plan to migrate to open source Java, with nearly as many (73%) Oracle Java users having audited their setup in the past three ...

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Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced the long awaited release of a fully buildable open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK) for the Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) under the GNU General Public ...

Some of the prominent vendors that work on Java standards through Sun Microsystems’ Java Community Process (JCP) favor Java being turned over to the open-source community. Many corporate developers, ...

It’s no surprise that Sun Microsystems 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 ...

A day after Sun chief Scott McNealy says "open source is our friend," a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy calls on the company to open Java code. Stephen Shankland worked ...