Sun Microsystems plans to simplify its Java license for commercial software companies. The new licensing tack is designed to give those developers more flexibility in how they can use the Java ...

Sun Microsystems launches its annual JavaOne conference with a new determination to reverse its fortune. For all its hype and popularity, Java has made more money in direct software sales for ...

Java steward Sun Microsystems is proposing changes to the standardization process for the programming language to create greater visibility and participation.

The debate inside Sun over whether to take Java open source is coming to a head as the JavaOne conference looms May 15. One of new Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz's first chores will be to ...

Sun Microsystems has a long history of innovation, and any list of the company’s greatest achievements must include the development of Java. But Sun is facing well-publicized financial problems ...

Sun's executive vice president of software, Richard Green, reiterated the company's intentions to open source Java at the JavaOne conference yesterday in San Francisco. Green claims that, although ...

When Sun engineers developed Java in the mid 1990s, it was a solid if not astounding advance in the art and science of computer programming. Java's creators borrowed ideas from the widely-used ...

Sun announced today that Java has made the jump to "open source," as Sun says that parts of the Java platform it owns are being licensed under the GPL open source license (version 2).

Sun Microsystems Inc. released two bundled packages of Java software on Wednesday — one for desktops and one for servers — along with pricing moves intended to bolster its position in the Java ...