Sun Microsystems has turned up the volume in its long-running battle with Microsoft over Java. In full-page ads in The New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, ...

The server giant will trumpet the latest improvements to its ambitious software project at its JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

IN THE OPINION of most observers, Java owns the enterprise software market. It achieved that ownership primarily through the worthwhile efforts of heavyweights Sun Microsystems, IBM, and BEA Systems.

Java steward Sun Microsystems is proposing changes to the Java standardization process to create greater visibility and participation. Sun said Thursday that the managing board of the Java Community ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems expects major PC makers soon will begin bundling Sun's software for running Java programs on their computers, Sun executives said Friday. If successful, the move would ...

It’s no surprise that Sun 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 software to date ...

Sun released a fully buildable Java Development Kit (JDK) for Java SE (Standard Edition) to the OpenJDK community on Tuesday, fulfilling the pledge it made at last year's JavaOne conference to free ...

Microsoft Corp.’s lawyers yesterday pecked away at Sun Microsystems Inc.’s claim that it needs a judge to level the Web services playing field, suggesting that Sun’s actions — rather than Microsoft’s ...

The company is very close to announcing that it will put the mobile (ME) and standard (SE) editions of the Java platform into the GNU General Public License (GPL), with the Java Enterprise Edition and ...

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 ...

At its 2004 JavaOne Conference, Sun Microsystems will release the much-heralded, so-called easy-to-use visual Java tool, Sun Java Studio Creator. The company will also issue a beta of NetBeans 4.0, an ...