The long-running battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over the Java programming language escalated Thursday, as Microsoft issued a terse response to a Sun ad campaign that ran last week.

A court order forcing Microsoft to distribute Sun Microsystems' Java software is necessary to preserve competition, Sun told a federal appeals court in a legal brief. Sun is trying to convince the 4th ...

Microsoft Corp.’s lawyers yesterday pecked away at Sun Microsystems Inc.’s claim that it needs a judge to level the Web services playing field, suggesting that Sun’s actions — rather than Microsoft’s ...

Sun is betting on JXTA (JuXTApose), an open-source technology being developed by the Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor under the JXTA Project, a Sun-funded initiative devoted to developing peer-to-peer ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is taking a page from Microsoft Corp.’s security group and changing the way it updates Java for the desktop. On Tuesday, Sun announced that it will start providing advance ...

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted Microsoft a stay of a Jan. 21 decision from U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz in Baltimore, who gave the company 120 days to begin including Sun's ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems made a filing to a federal appeals court on Tuesday laying out its objections to Microsoft’s request for more time to include Java technology in Windows operating ...