COMMENTARY--Sun Microsystems firmly established itself as an innovator when it introduced its groundbreaking programming platform, Java, seven years ago. Java was a direct assault on the company's ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Yesterday, I published a pair of posts that connect the dots between the recent Novell/Microsoft pact and Sun's plans to open source Java. I've been following the comments that ZDNet's readers have ...

Sun Microsystems announced Tuesday it has finished the process of making the bulk of its core Java technology available as open-source software under the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2).

If your program is free software, it is basically ethical - but there is a trap you must be on guard for. Your program, though in itself free, may be restricted by non-free software that it depends on ...