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 ...

Ten years on, Java founder James Gosling sees upside in the open source move, while others believe Sun didn't go far enough Ten years later, the open-sourcing of Java remains a point of contention, ...

Sun Microsystems announced Tuesday it has finished the process of making the bulk of its core Java technology available as open-source software under the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2).

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will open-source Java--it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said Tuesday. Open-source advocates have urged Sun for years to open-source the Java ...

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

"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 ...

What do developers love most about Java? For many, it’s how it manages to be so reliable (think Toyota) while still able to handle everything from parallel graph analytics to bleeding-edge finance ...

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...

"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, during his opening keynote at last week's JavaOne conference in San ...