The 30th anniversary of Java, being celebrated this year, offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on the remarkable changes ...

Sun has tried to leverage Java as a lead-in to selling services, but without much success. By contrast, Oracle is very disciplined about extracting money from its technologies.

Sun Microsystems announces the availability of Java Platform Standard Edition 6.

Java SE 6 comes with support for Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system, the business release of which made its debut late last month. Sun had to engage in some “difficult workarounds ...

Sun’s hoping that open sourcing Java under the GPL will lead to Linux distributors embedding the software in their operating systems and thus widening the technology’s appeal to more developers.

Sun would be better off putting Java under a real open-source license, said Burton Group analyst Anne Thomas Manes. "The JRL, from my perspective, ...

Sun Microsystems plans to simplify its Java license for commercial software companies. The new licensing tack is designed to give those developers more flexibility in how they can use the Java ...

Sun sued Microsoft for $35 million in 1997, saying Microsoft breached its contract by trying to extend Java so it would work differently, and presumably better, on Windows computers.

The debate inside Sun over whether to take Java open source is coming to a head as the JavaOne conference looms May 15. One of new Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz's first chores will be to ...