The fate of a Linux visionary who is charged with murder will be decided in a trial starting Tuesday in Oakland, Calif. Meanwhile, the fate of the file system he created remains left in the hands of ...

"At this point, it's not a question of whether. It's a question of how," said Rich Green, Sun's recently returned software chief, in an opening keynote address at the JavaOne conference in San ...

The company is very close to announcing that it will put the mobile (ME) and standard (SE) editions of the Java platform into the GNU General Public License (GPL), with the Java Enterprise Edition and ...

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

There can be no doubt that open source has been a tremendous boon to Java. The JCP (Java Community Process), by which the Java language and platform moves ahead, seems to inch forward at a glacial ...

Diffblue, a UK-based startup founded by University of Oxford researchers and focused on automating software development through artificial intelligence (AI), today announced that it is making a free ...

Do you have a business application you'd drop like a hot rock if you could just get your data out? Fire up this open source drag-and-drop tool and get happy. Do you have a business application you’d ...