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 ...

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 ...

Motorola plans to build an open-source version of Java for gadgets such as mobile phones within the framework of the Apache Software project. The work to develop the Java Micro Edition (ME) software ...

If you were excited about Node.js, Vert.x could be the next big thing for you: a similarly architected enterprise system that is built on the JVM. This installment of the Open source Java projects ...

"At this point, it's not a question of whether. It's a question of how," said Rich Green, Sun's recently returned software chief, in an opening keynote address at the JavaOne conference in San ...

Linux developer Red Hat is aligning with Sun Microsystems on open-source Java development, announcing Monday that it has signed Sun's OpenJDK license agreement and will contribute to the open Java ...

Fortify Software and theFindBugs Java error detection project this week unveileda collaborative effort aimed at zapping the bugs of open source softwarecode written ...

Oracle's lawsuit against Google for its use of patented Java technology raises serious questions about Oracle's future stewardship of the open source software technologies that it acquired from Sun.