The seeds for the infringement suit against Google and Android were sown at Sun, but it took Oracle's financial power to bring them to fruition. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

After extensive beta testing, Sun Microsystems has released update 10 of its Java Platform Standard Edition 6, with many significant enhancements. Will this lead to a resurgence of Java applications ...

The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

The battle between Sun and Microsoft over inclusion of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Windows wages on. At stake, according to a U.S. District Court, is the fairness of the fight between Java ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Sun Microsystems Jan. 25 announced the availability of its ...

While Oracle and Sun Microsystems are hailing Oracle’s purchase of Sun as a big boost for Java, others are not so sure. Some with stake in the Java ecosystem are questioning what kind of control ...

It’s no surprise that Sun Microsystems is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor’s choice of open source license. In all the open sourcing of its ...