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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...