Google’s planned mobile operating system, which has been referred to as Android N, will leverage OpenJDK APIs rather than Google’s own Java implementation alone. The move has been praised as good for ...

Q. After years of resisting, why is Sun making Java open source now? A. Sun made its core software product, the Solaris operating system, open source and thinks that's working. Customers still buy ...

The company is very close to announcing that it will put the mobile (ME) and standard (SE) editions of the Java platform into the GNU General Public License (GPL), with the Java Enterprise Edition and ...

As JavaOne gets under way, the company is seeing the center of Java move away from the Sun-controlled standards process. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

In November 2006, Sun Microsystems began making all of its Java technology implementations open source, offering them under the GPL. More than two years later, reactions are mixed as to what exactly ...

Last November, VC firm Thoma Brava closed an investment in open source Java specialist Azul, becoming its leading backer. Shortly afterwards Azul announced its first ...

Oracle Java reconsideration is widespread: 88% of Oracle Java users surveyed said they are considering alternatives, driven mainly by cost and licensing concerns.

The latest State of Java report from Azul Systems shows that the 30-year-old programming language has moved with the times and is being used for advanced applications like adding artificial ...

So unlike Java, which are finding critical vulnerabilities in current versions, these are exploiting already-patched vulnerabilities, which is the usual stuff for exploiting flaws. Yeah, if a user has ...

In November 2006, Sun Microsystems began making all of its Java technology implementations open source, offering them under the GPL. More than two years later, reactions are mixed as to what exactly ...