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. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Competitive pressure from open-source software is threatening to redraw the Java application server landscape, just as it has shaken up the operating systems realm. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Project Harmony debuted last Friday, appearing as a formal proposal on an Apache email discussion list. The proposal lists 12 founding members, including both U.S.-based and overseas developers active ...

Author, professor charges Oracle has twisted open development process to its own ends. A developer Java gurus call a Java Guru has resigned from Java’s governing body because, he said in a scathing ...

San Francisco — Should Java be available under an open source format? The debate is raging this week at the 2004 JavaOne conference here. One day after BEA Systems endorsed an open source stance for ...

Representatives from IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. 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 ...

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Infrastructure software provider BEA Systems said Tuesday that it will release a Java data-access development tool it acquired from SolarMetric to an open-source foundation later this year.

Sun says it will use its CDDL license for Java when it goes open source. A formal announcement is due by year-end. Will this kill existing open source Java projects? (The picture is from Enhydra, ...

Some of the prominent vendors that work on Java standards through Sun Microsystems’ Java Community Process (JCP) favor Java being turned over to the open-source community. Many corporate developers, ...

"At this point, it's not a question of whether, it's a question of how," said Rich Green, Sun's recently returned software chief, during his opening keynote at last week's JavaOne conference in San ...