Peter Yared, formerly of Sun and now CEO of ActiveGrid, posted an open letter to Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz regarding open sourcing Java on his blog. Here's the text:Dear Jonathan ...

Java has a major head start, and Microsoft's limited open source strategy could be too little too late ...

The open source and free software communities have embraced Java, and the fruits of that relationship are starting to show.

Survey finds majority of Oracle Java users audited in past 3 years, leading to migration to open-source Java due to dissatisfaction with pricing.

Oracle said this week it plans to transfer management of the Java EE project to an open-source foundation, such as Apache or Eclipse.