May 22, 2006—Among the biggest news stories at this week’s JavaOne conference was Sun Microsystems’ long-awaited announcement that it will be releasing the industry-standard Java programming language ...

Java has endured radical transformations in the technology landscape and many threats to its prominence. What makes this technology so great, and what does the future hold for Java?

Sun Microsystems has followed up an announcement that its Solaris server operating system will have an open-source flavor with a similar promise for its Java technology. Raghavan Srinivas, Java ...

A Sun executive said Tuesday said the company is “months” away from releasing its trademark Java programming language under an open-source license. Simon Phipps, chief open-source officer for Sun, ...

BEA Systems Inc. will jump into the debate over whether Java should be made open-source on Wednesday, and comments from one of its senior executives suggest the application server vendor is leaning in ...