Raising its stakes in open-source software, IBM plans to create an open-source project around Cloudscape, a specialized Java database, CNET News.com has learned. In conjunction with the LinuxWorld ...

Azul Systems, a company developing special-purpose hardware to help servers run Java programs faster, plans to announce Wednesday that it's won its first endorsement: a support deal from IBM Global ...

Rival open-source efforts to simplify development of Java software are inching closer together to battle a common enemy: Microsoft. Two open-source development-tool projects--Eclipse, backed by IBM, ...

Big Blue expects WebSphere Studio version 5.1 to improve productivity of programmers with faster performance and usability enhancements around Web page creation and administration. Martin LaMonica is ...

Representatives from IBM and Sun will meet in a week to 10 days time to discuss IBM’s proposal for creating an open source version of Sun’s Java technology, an IBM executive said Thursday. Sun wants ...

IBM’s reported interest in buying Sun Microsystems has Java and open-source community members expressing both hopes and worries about the implications of such a deal on the tools, applications and ...

IBM’s proposal to have the Java programming language offered under an open source format is puzzling a Sun official, who stressed Tuesday that the current licensing program ensures compatibility for ...

IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have a new favorite weapon in the public wrangling over Java development leadership: The open letter. IBM’s Rod Smith, vice-president of emerging technologies for ...