Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle got rich copying IBM’s SQL Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights.

Congratulations, Oracle. Java is the new king of foistware, displacing Adobe and Skype from the top of the heap. And it earned that place with a combination of software update practices that are ...

BURLINGAME, Calif. -- The Java computing language has finally proven to be the money-maker that Sun Microsystems always insisted it would be. Everyone, except perhaps Oracle shareholders, should ...

Google: Oracle Java win will kill software development, so Supreme Court must rule But Oracle says Google's concerns are a smokescreen for a desire to freely copy and make huge profits.

Oracle in January announced a change to its Java license that bases pricing on the number of employees in an organization, rather than on instances in use like they have in the past.

Days after the Department of Homeland Security said computer users should remove the latest versions of its Java software, Oracle Corp. says it has fixed the flaw, in a new update released Monday ...

Oracle profits surge—at the expense of Java development and software support Cloud revenues double, license sales shrink, and zero progress on Java EE.

Lately, however, a series of licensing and pricing changes for Oracle Java SE, the popular Java runtime and support subscription, has raised concerns across the global Java community.

Days after the US issued a security alert to millions of computer owners to temporarily disable Java, Oracle released an emergency fix to its product and urged it be made as soon as possible.

Inside these companies, there are thousands of servers running the Java Virtual Machine, or JVM, a piece of software the executes programming code. And the JVM is built by Oracle.

Oracle’s controversial new Java pricing plan, based on the customer’s total number of employees, rather than the number of employees using the software, presents opportunities for Java rivals ...

Business software giant Oracle announced Monday it was buying Sun Microsystems and its Java programming language for 7.4 billion dollars after IBM abandoned its bid for the struggling tech company.