Sun Microsystems gave Java developers new ammo in their ongoing battle against Microsoft with the release of an anticipated Java software update Thursday. Sun Microsystems, steward of the Java ...

Sun is hoping to increase the penetration of Linux on the enterprise desktop by slashing the price of its Java Desktop System, which is designed to replace Microsoft's Windows operating system and ...

When it comes to operating systems, Microsoft, IBM and Apple aren’t the only mega-companies with all the knowledge. Sun, with its Solaris OS, has years of expertise with Unix-based operating systems.

Java has been in the news a lot lately, and not for good reasons. Critical security flaws have allowed hackers to take complete control of PCs, and in-the-wild attacks exposed a problem Oracle went ...

Every dollar schools and universities spend on expensive, proprietary software is a dollar less spent on education. So it is really no surprise that schools and universities worldwide have embraced ...

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If Java on the desktop isn’t dead yet, its latest security update should go a long way toward convincing people it should be. How urgent is this new security update? Urgent enough that Oracle included ...

JAVA! THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE! FREE US, OR DIE! Star wars aside, mandatory applications at work necessitate Java remaining on my workstations. Secondarily, there are many websites I visit that use ...