Every dollar schools and universities spend on expensive, proprietary software is a dollar less spent on education. So it is really no surprise that schools and universities worldwide have embraced ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems' Java is now officially an open-source project--mostly. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based server and software company officially released the software at its OpenJDK Web ...

June 29, 2005—Sun Microsystems is pulling back plans to market and sell its Linux-based desktop operating system and is considering giving the technology to the open source community, the company ...

What do you get when you cross Sun Microsystems and the open source community centered on Linux? I thought the answer was lower-cost servers that run Linux, which is what Sun announced this week. But ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

Try as they might, open source desktop apps never gained much ground against proprietary rivals -- and maybe they never will Fans of the open source desktop productivity suite OpenOffice.org breathed ...

The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...