Santa Clara, Calif. — Sun Microsystems’s offering of the Java platform via open source under the GNU General Public License is a “momentous” change, said Sun President/CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Monday.

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 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 ...

Big Blue offers to work with Sun to help shepherd the programming language--Sun's most valuable software asset--through an open-source development model. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

When choosing customer relationship management (CRM) systems, it is important to look at the specific features and tools required to enhance interactions with your customer base. Many standard CRM ...

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 ...

The fate of a Linux visionary who is charged with murder will be decided in a trial starting Tuesday in Oakland, Calif. Meanwhile, the fate of the file system he created remains left in the hands of ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will open-source Java--it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said Tuesday. Open-source advocates have urged Sun for years to open-source the Java ...

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 ...

Diffblue, a UK-based startup founded by University of Oxford researchers and focused on automating software development through artificial intelligence (AI), today announced that it is making a free ...

Do you have a business application you'd drop like a hot rock if you could just get your data out? Fire up this open source drag-and-drop tool and get happy. Do you have a business application you’d ...