Big Blue offers to work with Sun to help shepherd the programming language--Sun's most valuable software asset--through an open-source development model. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

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 ...

Much of the software we use today is built on re-implemented APIs, like the Java API in question in Oracle v. Google. An Oracle victory would have stopped open-source innovation in its tracks. The ...

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, ...