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 ...

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).

Sun Microsystems is counting on the ubiquitous nature of Java to help its JavaFX technology compete in the rich Internet application (RIA) space against rivals Adobe Systems and Microsoft. A browser ...

SAN JOSE, California--The Sun Microsystems executive who runs the company's Java efforts yesterday charged that Microsoft is trying to "flood the market" with its own "divergent version of Java" in an ...

Microsoft Corp. must distribute Java technology from Sun Microsystems Inc. in every copy of Windows and Internet Explorer that it ships, a U.S. federal judge ruled today. U.S. District Judge Frederick ...

Given the portability of Java code between the server, desktop, and mobile editions of that platform, one can only guess at the plethora of Salesforce.com-esque applications that Google will deliver ...