Sun Microsystems has turned up the volume in its long-running battle with Microsoft over Java. In full-page ads in The New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, ...

IN THE OPINION of most observers, Java owns the enterprise software market. It achieved that ownership primarily through the worthwhile efforts of heavyweights Sun Microsystems, IBM, and BEA Systems.

Java steward Sun Microsystems is proposing changes to the Java standardization process to create greater visibility and participation. Sun said Thursday that the managing board of the Java Community ...

The long-running battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over the Java programming language escalated Thursday, as Microsoft issued a terse response to a Sun ad campaign that ran last week.

Oracle’s acquisition of Java founder Sun Microsystems, which finally closed in January after lingering for eight months, placed Oracle in charge of Java — or did it? On the surface, it would seem ...

The Santa Clara, Calif., company said the cross-platform technology it created more than 10 years ago will be available under the GNU General Public License, which is the same contract that governs ...

More than a year after creating a Java server software suite, Sun Microsystems is breaking that package into smaller components in an effort to make the software easier to try. Sun's Java Enterprise ...

Sun last week announced a Java-based product designed to make it easy for companies to switch from tagging their products with traditional bar codes to radio frequency identification technology. Sun ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is refashioning customer support options for Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE), extending support to 15 years under one paid plan and reducing it from six years to three years ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. released two bundled packages of Java software today — one for desktops and one for servers — and announced pricing moves intended to bolster its position in the Java software ...