It’s no surprise that Sun Microsystems 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 ...

A day after Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said open-source software is his company's friend, a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy has called upon the server maker to ...

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, ...

"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 ...