The server giant will trumpet the latest improvements to its ambitious software project at its JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Sun Microsystems has turned up the volume in its long-running battle with Microsoft over Java. In full-page ads in The New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, ...

IN THE OPINION of most observers, Java owns the enterprise software market. It achieved that ownership primarily through the worthwhile efforts of heavyweights Sun Microsystems, IBM, and BEA Systems.

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems expects major PC makers soon will begin bundling Sun's software for running Java programs on their computers, Sun executives said Friday. If successful, the move would ...

Sun Microsystems executives revealed at the JavaOne conference on Tuesday future Java technologies being pondered, including Project Semplice, which will enable Visual Basic developers to use Java.

Sun Microsystems is moving closer to an open-source process for its Java software this week with the public posting of the source code of "Mustang," its next version for desktop computers. The ...

Microsoft Corp.’s lawyers yesterday pecked away at Sun Microsystems Inc.’s claim that it needs a judge to level the Web services playing field, suggesting that Sun’s actions — rather than Microsoft’s ...

Sun Tuesday launched a portal site for its Java programming language as the company inches closer to making the Java code open source, a company executive said Tuesday. The Web site details the ...

Pricing for Java Studio Creator, an early access version of which will be released next week, will likely emulate the per-user pricing Sun introduced with its Java Enterprise System (JES) and Java ...

Sun Microsystems officials introduced on Thursday Sun’s upgrades to three Java-based technologies, including the company’s latest implementation of enterprise Java. But they were silent on the ...

It’s no surprise that Sun 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 software to date ...

"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 ...