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 ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. launched a portal site for its Java programming language today as it inches closer to making the Java code open-source, a company executive said. The Web site details the company ...

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 ...

Google’s chief of open source believes an IBM acquisition of Sun could benefit the Java community, which has occasionally protested Sun’s leadership role over the technology. Chris Dibona, Google’s ...

As the chief open-source officer at Sun Microsystems Inc., Simon Phipps has been busy in recent months with various open-source initiatives. The company released OpenSolaris, the open-source version ...

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

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK). The news first ...

Azul has acquired Payara, adding a Jakarta EE application server business to Azul’s Java runtime and support portfolio. The combined company is positioning itself as a commercially supported, ...

Eclipse, a project backed by IBM to create open-source development tools, later this month will release an update to its technology designed to help link different programming tools. The ...