A key reason why Sun has expressed reluctance to make Java open source is compatibility--the guarantee that a Java program will run on any Java software foundation. It's not an academic concern ...

Sun on Tuesday announced a $3 million scholarship program to help software developers build open-source implementations of Java standards. The money is aimed at helping programmers pay for Sun's ...

The company pointed to existing open-source projects, such as Tomcat, which drive adoption of Java programming while maintaining adherence to standards. "With Sun's support, an open-source Java ...

Sun resisted making Java open-source software for years ... a software technology that enables programs written in the Java programming language to run on a variety of devices without having ...

left open the possibility that Sun might offer its Java programming language under an open source format. Speaking during a Sun Software Summit in Menlo Park, Calif., Sun’s Rich Green ...

Sun Microsystems launched a portal site for its Java programming language on Tuesday as the company inches closer to making the Java code open source, a company executive said Tuesday. The website ...

Ruby itself is an elegant object-oriented language with support for sophisticated programming constructs ... for a project to be open source. Is Sun’s slow release of Java source code or ...

It paved the way for open source to enter the enterprise. "And, arguably, the enterprise never looked back." Indeed, the sheer amount of Java code that now underpins the enterprise means that the need ...

Apple has released Pkl, a new open source ‘embeddable configuration ... rather than imperative instructions like many other traditional programming languages, Apple has designed Pkl to ...

Sun created the Java programming language in 1995 to give ... to package and redistribute the Java platform by Linux and open-source developers,” said Stephen O’Grady, a technology analyst ...