Anyone looking for Sun Microsystems to relinquish control of Java to the open source community or to join the Eclipse Foundation is likely to be disappointed, based on Java guru James Gosling’s ...

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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. WebAssembly was created to perform the highly complex and overwhelmingly sophisticated ...

How is Java made? Let’s take a look at the process for introducing new features to the platform, and at some of the big JDK enhancement projects on the horizon. Java is widely used and heavily relied ...

There are 17,000 unpatched Log4j packages in the Maven Central ecosystem, leaving massive supply-chain risk on the table from Log4Shell exploits. There’s an enormous amount of software vulnerable to ...

Free and open software have transformed the tech industry. But we still have a lot to work out to make them healthy, equitable enterprises. When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial ...

Open source software is ubiquitous. It has become an unequaled driver of technological innovation because organizations that use it don't have to reinvent the wheel for common software components.

Sun Microsystems finally received the seal of approval it has been seeking from a large private sector client for its Java Desktop System, with the announcement Tuesday that the Allied Irish Bank is ...