Sun Microsystems is giving students and professors a free ride. The company announced on Monday that it would no longer charge them for nearly 100 software products, including programming tools.

James Gosling, who helped create Sun Microsystems' Java software, is working to bring it back to its desktop computing roots. Making things easy with JavaFX Sun looks to jolt interest in Java Stephen ...

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 ...

In a move they said will give customers more technology choices, Sun Microsystems Inc. and content management vendor Vignette Corp. have unveiled a plan to bolster the integration between their ...

A Sun Microsystems executive says the company's Java Card technology, which is used to identify millions of mobile phone users, is headed for PCs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Sun Microsystems has released a new version of its Java Enterprise System (Java ES), a set of subscription-based enterprise middleware, with emphasis on making the offering more modular. Java ES 5.0 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. said Thursday it plans to change its Nasdaq stock ticker symbol to "JAVA" from "SUNW." The change will go into effect on Aug. 27, the Santa Clara, ...