Oracle and IBM officials took the stage together Wednesday to champion Java and stress that their own interests mandate continued vitality of the platform. Hailing a Java “renaissance,” Mark Reinhold, ...

The two companies, which together hold significant sway over the market for Java application servers, are collaborating on a way to build common components within their products. Martin LaMonica is a ...

Big Blue expects WebSphere Studio version 5.1 to improve productivity of programmers with faster performance and usability enhancements around Web page creation and administration. Martin LaMonica is ...

IBM has begun participating in open-source Java project Harmony and intends to contribute code to the initiative, according to a Big Blue executive. In the past week, IBM has dedicated an employee to ...

IBM on Tuesday said it acquired privately held start-up Gluecode Software, a company that offers a low-end, open-source alternative to IBM's WebSphere line. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed ...

COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there’s over ...