BURLINGAME, Calif. -- The Java computing language has finally proven to be the money-maker that Sun Microsystems always insisted it would be. Everyone, except perhaps Oracle shareholders, should be ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sun Microsystems Inc. said it will offer Java for free to widen distribution and adoption of the software platform among developers and companies using open- ...

After extensive beta testing, Sun Microsystems has released update 10 of its Java Platform Standard Edition 6, with many significant enhancements. Will this lead to a resurgence of Java applications ...

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems four years ago, it quickly and ruthlessly started tearing out the unprofitable stuff. Sun was a company run by engineers, a Xerox-PARC-like outfit where a cool idea ...

Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have settled their long-running lawsuit over Microsoft's use of Sun's Java software. Under the settlement, Microsoft (msft) will pay Sun (sunw) $20 million and is ...

It’s no surprise that Sun Microsystems is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor’s choice of open source license. In all the open sourcing of its ...

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Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced in a blog entry today that Sun will be changing its ticker symbol on the NASDAQ from SUNW to JAVA. Schwartz cites the high visibility of the Java brand ...

San Francisco (January 23, 2001) — Microsoft has agreed to pay Sun Microsystems US $20 million as part of an agreement to settle a bitter, 3-year legal battle over its use of Sun’s Java programming ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will open-source Java--it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said Tuesday. Open-source advocates have urged Sun for years to open-source the Java ...