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).

Big Blue will create versions of its server software for Sun's operating system and will support Java for an additional 10 years. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

After being criticized for putting users at risk by staggering security updates, Sun has decided to give advance notice of Java SE updates and release them all at once Sun is taking a page from ...