While Oracle and Sun Microsystems are hailing Oracle’s purchase of Sun as a big boost for Java, others are not so sure. Some with stake in the Java ecosystem are questioning what kind of control ...

With Sun, Oracle said Java and Solaris are the keepers in the deal. "More Oracle databases run on the Solaris Sparc than any other system," said Ellison, noting Linux was second. "We'll engineer ...

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 ...

Oracle said the deal is valued at $5.6 billion excluding cash and debt. Oracle is calling Sun’s Java “the most important software” it has ever acquired. The deal, which is expected to close ...

Invented by Sun, Java is now overseen by Oracle, and yet, as those big web companies embrace Java in such a big way, Oracle is on the outside looking in. When it was founded back in 2006 ...

but does have lots of plans for Java's various editions Oracle’s plans for Java and the proposed Sun Cloud public computing platform became clearer Wednesday, with Oracle executives giving ...

Best thing to happen to Sun since Java. Also: I don’t give a sh#t about the iPad. I said it.” There’s little new in observing that on the platform side, that Oracle’s acquisition of Sun is ...

March 2010 Simon Phipps, Open Source Officer, leaves Sun/Oracle. April 2010 James Gosling, father of Java, leaves Oracle. He later calls the company "ethically challenged." August 2010 Oracle memo ...

This aspect of Sun's OpenSolaris strategy will almost definitely be left as an exercise for the community. Oracle is a prominent player in the Java middleware space and is a major stakeholder in ...

Even as late as August 10, 2010, just before Oracle launched its lawsuit, Google was still thinking about licensing Java from Sun. An e-mail to Rubin from Tim Lindholm, a member of the original ...

The seeds for the infringement suit against Google and Android were sown at Sun, but it took Oracle's financial power to bring them to fruition. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Exclusive: Framework agreement may rescue some unis from 'financial abyss' after Oracle per-employee Java license, says ...