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 ...

"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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — If pressed to vote yea or nay, James Gosling said this week at the JavaOne conference here that he would cast his ballot in favor of making core pieces of Java open-source, even though ...

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 ...

BEA Systems Inc. will jump into the debate over whether Java should be made open-source on Wednesday, and comments from one of its senior executives suggest the application server vendor is leaning in ...

SAN FRANCISCO — BEA Systems Inc. on Wednesday cast its vote in favor of Sun Microsystems Inc. making parts of its Java technology open-source, ratcheting the debate up a notch. “We’d like to go on the ...

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 ...