The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

A day after Sun chief Scott McNealy says "open source is our friend," a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy calls on the company to open Java code. Stephen Shankland worked ...

I'm doing some Java stuff with school, and I was wondering if it's possible to create a console gui, in Java? I'm not getting much with google, as I'm not sure what "this" is called.<br><br>Basicly, ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. Sun Microsystems will begin releasing significant open-source Java components this year and also will extend the collaborative strategy to ...

The Apache Foundation has proposed creating an open-source version of Java on the desktop, a plan that Sun Microsystems has initially welcomed. Project Harmony, which was formally proposed Friday, ...

Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM’s AIX OS under a proposal floated this week that could eventually benefit the different Linux distributors. The project ...