Sun Microsystems is working to make good on its promises to the open-source community. Sun on Tuesday announced a $3 million scholarship program to help software developers build open-source ...

Big Blue offers to work with Sun to help shepherd the programming language--Sun's most valuable software asset--through an open-source development model. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Ten years on, Java founder James Gosling sees upside in the open source move, while others believe Sun didn't go far enough Ten years later, the open-sourcing of Java remains a point of contention, ...

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 ...

While acknowledging obstacles remain, a Sun official on Tuesday left open the possibility that Sun might offer its Java programming language under an open source format. While acknowledging obstacles ...