Businesses that love Java and are looking to move to open source may want to give Compiere a look. The system is a complete ERP and CRM suite that includes accounting, order entry, customer ...

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 ...

Open-source ERP (enterprise resource planning) software may still represent a small chunk of the overall market, but as a concept it has clearly gained a critical mass of adherents. Two open-source ...

Sun Microsystems President and COO Jonathan Schwartz discussed partner opportunities around open-source technology, Web services, service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and Java Business Integration ...

There can be no doubt that open source has been a tremendous boon to Java. The JCP (Java Community Process), by which the Java language and platform moves ahead, seems to inch forward at a glacial ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — In a bid to make their applications more enticing for corporate IT users, open-source software vendors are working to make the applications easier to deploy and support. Here at the ...

In November 2006, Sun Microsystems began making all of its Java technology implementations open source, offering them under the GPL. More than two years later, reactions are mixed as to what exactly ...

Sun Microsystems has followed up an announcement that its Solaris server operating system will have an open-source flavor with a similar promise for its Java technology. Raghavan Srinivas, Java ...

In November 2006, Sun Microsystems began making all of its Java technology implementations open source, offering them under the GPL. More than two years later, reactions are mixed as to what exactly ...