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.

The app store frenzy continued this week as Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Java developer Sun Microsystems, revealed his own plans to get in on the game, on a much bigger scale. Whereas Apple blazed the ...

Is it "safe" to install Sun's Java on my brand new Windows 7 (64-bit) PC? A number of web sites, particularly broadband speed testers, seem to require it. Dave Simpkin I'd gladly do without Java ...

Following its acquisition of mobile platform SavaJe in April, computer giant Sun Microsystems has pledged to take another crack at the “write once, run anywhere” promise of Java on the mobile.

Putting intellectual property into the hands of the open source community is rapidly becoming accepted as an alternative to killing a product. When CA released the Ingres source code to open source ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems officials introduced on Thursday Sun’s upgrades to three Java-based technologies, including the company’s latest implementation of enterprise Java. But they were silent on the ...

The Santa Clara, Calif., company said the cross-platform technology it created more than 10 years ago will be available under the GNU General Public License, which is the same contract that governs ...