Sun Microsystems Inc. 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 quietly ...

Project Harmony, which was formally proposed Friday, aims to write from scratch the software, called Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), that is needed to run Java programs on desktop PCs. The project was ...

SAN FRANCISCO – 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...