Sun Microsystems has turned up the volume in its long-running battle with Microsoft over Java. In full-page ads in The New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, ...

The long-running battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over the Java programming language escalated Thursday, as Microsoft issued a terse response to a Sun ad campaign that ran last week.

Just days after a security researcher blasted its Java patching system, Sun has issued a critical update to the consumer version of its Java software. The Java Platform Standard Edition (SE) Version 6 ...

Java steward Sun Microsystems is proposing changes to the Java standardization process to create greater visibility and participation. Sun said Thursday that the managing board of the Java Community ...

IN THE OPINION of most observers, Java owns the enterprise software market. It achieved that ownership primarily through the worthwhile efforts of heavyweights Sun Microsystems, IBM, and BEA Systems.

Sun Microsystems is moving closer to an open-source process for its Java software this week with the public posting of the source code of "Mustang," its next version for desktop computers. The ...

For the next few days, two dozen people in bright red wigs and tights will race around the streets of San Francisco pointing to cell phones, computers, PDAs and other electronic devices and telling ...

The Santa Clara, Calif., company said the cross-platform technology it created more than 10 years ago will be available under the GNU General Public License, which is the same contract that governs ...

At its 2004 JavaOne Conference, Sun Microsystems will release the much-heralded, so-called easy-to-use visual Java tool, Sun Java Studio Creator. The company will also issue a beta of NetBeans 4.0, an ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is refashioning customer support options for Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE), extending support to 15 years under one paid plan and reducing it from six years to three years ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. patched 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows, Linux and Solaris versions of its Java Runtime Environment and Java Web Start yesterday, including several rated critical by outside ...