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 ...

Sun and the Java world are hurtling towards the date — albeit still undetermined — when Java code is released to the open source community. Already surfacing are some details are how this will go down ...

update Sun Microsystems has confirmed plans to open-source key components of its Java platform by the end of this year. This follows an earlier commitment, pledged at the JavaOne developer conference ...

Competitive pressure from open-source software is threatening to redraw the Java application server landscape, just as it has shaken up the operating systems realm. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

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 ...

There can be no doubt that open source has been a tremendous boon to Java. The JCP (Java Community Process), by which the Java language and platform moves ahead, seems to inch forward at a glacial ...

COMMENTARY--The open source and free software communities have embraced Java, and the fruits of that relationship are starting to show. On the server, projects like Jigsaw, JBoss, Enhydra and Apache's ...

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On Thursday at the show, a panel of Java industry experts including Gosling will debate the myriad issues surrounding whether Java should adopt a new, open-source community model rather than remain ...

One high point of the session came when Red Hat engineer Tom Tromey essentially offered to throw the project he's worked on for nearly a decade, Java compiler GCJ, onto the funeral pyre. While ...

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.

Thursday, Oracle filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant of infringing on patented Java technologies in its Linux-based Android mobile operating system. Even ...