Oracle and Sun Microsystems have teamed up to try to snatch away Microsoft's customers. In a bid to convince Microsoft developers to support the Java programming language, Oracle and Sun announced ...

BURLINGAME, Calif. -- The Java computing language has finally proven to be the money-maker that Sun Microsystems always insisted it would be. Everyone, except perhaps Oracle shareholders, should be ...

Oracle and Sun Microsystems have teamed up to try to snatch away Microsoft's customers. In a bid to convince Microsoft developers to support the Java programming language, Oracle and Sun announced ...

While Oracle and Sun Microsystems are hailing Oracle’s purchase of Sun as a big boost for Java, others are not so sure. Some with stake in the Java ecosystem are questioning what kind of control ...

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Would the Java community thrive as well under Oracle’s control as it did under Sun Microsystems’? Vendors of Java products seem split about the question. Mark Little, who is Red Hat’s chief ...

Oracle Corp. may have decided to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. because it was worth far more to the database market leader than it was to IBM. It’s not a question of the price — at $7.4 billion, Oracle ...

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 ...

Oracle Corporation (ORCL) is to buy Sun Microsystems (JAVA) for $9.50 a share in a deal valued at approximately $7.4 billion, just a few weeks after a deal by IBM to buy Sun fell apart. It looks like ...