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 ...

The seeds for the infringement suit against Google and Android were sown at Sun, but it took Oracle's financial power to bring them to fruition. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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 ...

When Oracle announced it was buying Sun and taking stewardship of Java there were a lot of concerned open-source software fans. But, two and a half years on, Oracle is doing a fine job of steering ...

As I mentioned last week there are some obvious stress points in the Oracle/Sun merger - support being on top of the list. Among the personal emails responses I got to this - often, by the way, from ...

Sun Microsystems officials introduced last week upgrades to three Java-based technologies, including the company’s latest implementation of enterprise Java. But they were silent on the elephant in the ...

What to do with sun.misc.Unsafe in Java 9? One side says it's simply an awful hack from the bad old days that should be gotten rid of; the other side says its heavy use is responsible for the rise of ...