Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Sun Microsystems on Thursday is announcing availability of OpenJDK Community Technology Compatibility Kit License, providing access to compatibility tests for open-source Java implementations. The ...

The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

The Apache Software Foundation has quit its seat on a key Java standards governing board and in a statement roundly criticized Oracle for refusing to provide a technology compatibility kit for ...

米国San FranciscoでJavaOneが開幕した。世界最大の開発者会議と言われる“JavaOne(2003 JavaOne Conference)”初日の様子をお伝えしよう。 会場となった米国San FranciscoのMoscone Center 例年なら“Keynote(キーノート)”として開催される、いわゆる「基調講演」が、今年は少々 ...

Javaの開発環境やJava VMの実装は，サンが提供している。しかしJava仮想マシン仕様（Java Virtual Machine Specification）を満たせば、独自のJava VMを作ることは可能である。実際、ベンダー各社は独自のJava VMを開発･提供している。サンからソースライセンスを受けて ...

Anyone looking for Sun Microsystems to relinquish control of Java to the open source community or to join the Eclipse Foundation is likely to be disappointed, based on Java guru James Gosling's ...

IBM’s proposal to have the Java programming language offered under an open source format is puzzling a Sun official, who stressed Tuesday that the current licensing program ensures compatibility for ...

Q. After years of resisting, why is Sun making Java open source now? A. Sun made its core software product, the Solaris operating system, open source and thinks that's working. Customers still buy ...