Sun Microsystems has launched new software tools to bolster its Web services strategy. Sun executives said Friday that the company has released a starter kit, which features a tutorial and development ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. released two bundled packages of Java software today — one for desktops and one for servers — and announced pricing moves intended to bolster its position in the Java software ...

Sun Tuesday disclosed pricing details for Project Orion, an initiative that aims to radically simplify the way Sun delivers server software to its customers and in the process, Sun hopes, will make ...

Sun Microsystems on Tuesday is broadening its Java Enterprise System network services software package, releasing middleware suites tailored to functions such as service-oriented architectures and ...

The tech giant plans to build ties between the different flavors of Java in a bid to present the programming technology as more unified. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

IN THE OPINION of most observers, Java owns the enterprise software market. It achieved that ownership primarily through the worthwhile efforts of heavyweights Sun Microsystems, IBM, and BEA Systems.

In July, the JCP, which defines Java standards, took steps to finalize the new Java Specification Participation Agreement (JSPA), which gives Java spec lead companies the freedom to decide how to ...

The Santa Clara, Calif., company said the cross-platform technology it created more than 10 years ago will be available under the GNU General Public License, which is the same contract that governs ...

Last May, Sun released Java Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE, known in previous editions as J2EE), the latest version of the standards platform that underpins many commercial and open-source application ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is taking a page from Microsoft Corp.’s security group and changing the way it updates Java for the desktop. On Tuesday, Sun announced that it will start providing advance ...

Microsoft Corp.’s lawyers yesterday pecked away at Sun Microsystems Inc.’s claim that it needs a judge to level the Web services playing field, suggesting that Sun’s actions — rather than Microsoft’s ...

If their goal is to have their distribution of java included in every linux distro, then anything less than GPL would not have worked. So yes, I think it was. Fantastic news for the Open Source ...