Simon Phipps, chief open source officer for Sun, says that the company is ruminating over two major issues: how to keep Java compatible, and how to ensure that no particular company uses market forces ...

Q. After years of resisting, why is Sun making Java open source now? A. Sun made its core software product, the Solaris operating system, open source and thinks that's working. Customers still buy ...

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 ...

May 22, 2006—Among the biggest news stories at this week’s JavaOne conference was Sun Microsystems’ long-awaited announcement that it will be releasing the industry-standard Java programming language ...

"There's been a lot of churn lately over open letters from IBM and others calling for Sun to open source Java. Rather than try to respond to everyone individually, I'll try to respond to a pile of ...

Azul Systems, the Java runtime developer run by Scott Sellers, has developed a version of its open source Java Virtual Machine (JVM) called Zulu Embedded which supports 32-bit ARM processors. This ...

Among the biggest news stories at this week's JavaOne conference was Sun Microsystems Inc.'s long-awaited announcement that it will be releasing the industry-standard Java programming language under ...