SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems touted the server-based version of its Java software at a press conference here Tuesday, just two weeks before Microsoft is set to release rival technology. Five months ...

Competitive pressure from open-source software is threatening to redraw the Java application server landscape, just as it has shaken up the operating systems realm. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

GlassFish, released simultaneously with Java Enterprise Edition 5 last May, is a deployable application server and the reference implementation for other vendors to use when updating their own ...

BEA Systems Inc. has released an upgrade to its JRockit Java virtual machine (JVM) for servers based on Intel Corp. processors, the company announced. BEA acquired JRockit early last year from ...

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...