Sun's executive vice president of software, Richard Green, reiterated the company's intentions to open source Java at the JavaOne conference yesterday in San Francisco. Green claims that, although ...

With Java, the how is not so simple. Sun, I believe, has the IP rights it needs to open source Java. It's the compatibility problem that's the major thorn (as O'Grady and others often allude to).

Sun Microsystems open-sourced its Java technology a year go, in November 2006. Rich Sands, community marketing manager for Java Platform Standard Edition for Sun, sat down with eWEEK Senior Editor ...

In an unexpected move, vendor decides to license open source Java under the GPL. First batch of source codes are also released.

May 22, 2006—Among the biggest news stories at this week's JavaOne conference was Sun Microsystems' long-awaited announcement that it will be releasing the industry-standard Java programming ...

Sun Microsystems finally answered long-running calls for the vendor to open-source Java, announcing last week that it will do so once it works out the logistics.

A day after Sun chief Scott McNealy says "open source is our friend," a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy calls on the company to open Java code.