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 ...

Competitive pressure from open-source software is threatening to redraw the Java application server landscape, just as it has shaken up the operating systems realm. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Prominent open source software groups are warning that a recent incident where disguised hackers tried to sneak a vulnerability into a ...

In November 2006, Sun Microsystems began making all of its Java technology implementations open source, offering them under the GPL. More than two years later, reactions are mixed as to what exactly ...

"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, in an opening keynote address at the JavaOne conference in San ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems is grappling with applying an open-source philosophy to its Java software as the company weighs risks and benefits over whether it should jump in further or not. But ...