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 ...

Linux developer Red Hat is aligning with Sun Microsystems on open-source Java development, announcing Monday that it has signed Sun's OpenJDK license agreement and will contribute to the open Java ...

Red Hat has signed on to participate in Sun Microsystems’ open-source Java Standard Edition (SE) project, OpenJDK, and to coordinate its own Java development efforts for Linux with the project. Red ...

"At this point, it's not a question of whether. It's a question of how," said Rich Green, Sun's recently returned software chief, in an opening keynote address at the JavaOne conference in San ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK). The news first ...

The alert comes just after a possible nation state entity attempted to hijack an open-source Linux tool last month. Open Source Cyber Threats Prominent open source software groups are warning that a ...

Red Hat has signed on to participate in Sun Microsystems’ open source Java Standard Edition (SE) project, OpenJDK, and to coordinate its own Java development efforts for Linux with the project. Red ...