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 ...

While acknowledging obstacles remain, a Sun official on Tuesday left open the possibility that Sun might offer its Java programming language under an open source format. While acknowledging obstacles ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Java now consists of 6 million lines of code, with many contributions to the language, its compilers, and its virtual machine coming from outside Sun. Sun will release to open source code the parts ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Sun executive said Tuesday said the company is “months” away from releasing its trademark Java programming language under an open-source license. Simon Phipps, chief open-source officer for Sun, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Inc.’s announcement today that it plans to eventually open-source Java reflects CEO Jonathan Schwartz’s belief that the key to growth at his struggling company is to ...

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.

The NetBeans IDE is pretty good on its own, but even handier once you start extending it with plugins specific to your needs. In this installment of Open source Java projects, Jeff Friesen introduces ...

At one time I used to be a decent C/C++ (and a bit of VB, ick) programmer but for the last couple of years I've been working with customers alot more than code. I really miss programming (most of you ...