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 ...
BOSTON--Sun Microsystems is reluctant to make Java source code available through an open-source model because it would encourage incompatible versions of the software, Sun's top software executive ...
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 ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems is grappling with applying an open-source philosophy to its Java software as the company weighs risks and benefits over whether it should jump in further or not. But ...
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 ...
"At this point, it's not a question of whether. It's a question of how," said Rich Green, Sun's recently returned software chief, in an opening keynote address at the JavaOne conference in San ...