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 ...

Sun Microsystems has followed up an announcement that its Solaris server operating system will have an open-source flavor with a similar promise for its Java technology. Raghavan Srinivas, Java ...

The alert comes just after a possible nation state entity attempted to hijack an open-source Linux tool last month. Open Source Cyber Threats Prominent open source software groups are warning that a ...

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 ...

How pervasive is open source software? Extremely pervasive. Is it getting any easier to work with? Not much easier, sorry. That's the prognosis of a recent survey of 872 IT managers, which finds eight ...

Repeat after me and V.M. "Vicky" Brasseur, well-known open-source business strategist: "Open source is not a business model." It's a software development model that can be used as part of many ...