Oracle has raised questions whether a version of Google’s Android operating system running OpenJDK code will at all get an open-source license. Google told a court in California that it released on ...

One of Oracle's longest-serving senior team members, chief corporate architect Edward Screven, has announced plans to retire on a comfortable sum.… Screven joined Oracle in 1986, famously leading the ...

Oracle's lawsuit against Google for its use of patented Java technology raises serious questions about Oracle's future stewardship of the open source software technologies that it acquired from Sun.

Much of the software we use today is built on re-implemented APIs, like the Java API in question in Oracle v. Google. An Oracle victory would have stopped open-source innovation in its tracks. The ...

Oracle's relentless licensing changes are pushing organisations into the open-saucy arms of openjdk, according to a new survey. A Dimensional Research survey of 500 IT asset managers shows that 73 per ...

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, ...

Let’s face it. While everyone in open source for the last 10 years has been beating up on Microsoft about being public enemy #1, there has been another large software company whose record is even ...

Oracle has proposed a project to the Eclipse open-source foundation to ease creation of high-end Java applications. The company said it intends to spearhead the Eclipse project and make contributions ...

"The model for Java has always been that we give customers and the developer community [access to] open source Java and we also license it to commercial vendors under the standard license ...