Sun Microsystems is working to make good on its promises to the open-source community. Sun on Tuesday announced a $3 million scholarship program to help software developers build open-source ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Project Harmony debuted last Friday, appearing as a formal proposal on an Apache email discussion list. The proposal lists 12 founding members, including both U.S.-based and overseas developers active ...

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 ...

Infrastructure software provider BEA Systems said Tuesday that it will release a Java data-access development tool it acquired from SolarMetric to an open-source foundation later this year.

Storm is a big data framework that is similar to Hadoop but fine-tuned to handle unbounded data streams. In this installment of Open source Java projects, learn how Storm builds on the lessons and ...

The first big open-source-related stink has emerged in the wake of the Oracle-Sun merger … and it involves MySQL, and the possible forking thereof by the original developers. The Java community has ...

Cafe Java was started by Matt Lacey in Austin in 1996. Now, under the Siade family, there are plans to open a new location, ...

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Author, professor charges Oracle has twisted open development process to its own ends. A developer Java gurus call a Java Guru has resigned from Java’s governing body because, he said in a scathing ...

With Ubuntu Pro, Canonical's OpenJDK build includes 12 years of support. 'Chiseled' builds are faster, more secure than other OpenJDK builds. Canonical is aligning Ubuntu's and OpenJDK's release ...