Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

SAP has joined the OpenJDK project, an Oracle-led initiative producing an open source implementation of Java that also has gained support of such companies as and in recent months. In an announcement ...

Positioning its NetWeaver platform for enterprise Java applications, SAP plans to offer a "virtual machine container" in 2005. With the announcement this week at its Tech Ed conference in San Diego, ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US news every morning. The US may have cleared Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, but there’s still a view among some people who have been ...

SAP's NetWeaver has achieved compatibility with Java Enterprise Edition 5, enabling users to execute Java applications on the NetWeaver Application Server. The compatibility feature offers essentially ...

SAP is maneuvering to bolster its NetWeaver platform as a viable alternative to competing application development environments with a new program to court Java and .Net developers. The company will ...

After years of exclusive loyalty to Microsoft, SAP has yielded to customer pressure and opened up its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to Java. Developers say this will unleash a wide range ...

SAP said Wednesday it contacted Oracle and its CEO, Larry Ellison, in recent months over concerns about the future of the Java programming language and competition in the database market, not to offer ...