The 30th anniversary of Java, being celebrated this year, offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on the remarkable changes ...

Changes to Oracle Java licensing now means that IT leaders need to be wary of the footprint of this widely deployed ...

2010 Oracle sues Google over Android platform, Google boycotts JavaOne 2010, and IBM and Oracle announce IBM’s commitment to collaborating on OpenJDK development Today’s announcement that IBM ...

Google has announced a move away from Oracle’s proprietary Java APIs. Beginning with the next version of their mobile operating system (Android N), the new standard will be OpenJDK, an open ...

The knock on effect of this is that Linux distributions will on longer package Oracle’s Java (== OpenJDK wrapped up in some proprietary bits and pieces) as the default Java.

Oracle doesn't plan to make the key Java compatibility test suite available under licensing terms that are appropriate for Apache's Harmony project. IBM has responded by shifting its focus away ...

Oracle (news, site) and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) (news, site) are in a bitter dispute over licensing issues and ASF threatens to veto Java 7 if the licensing issues are not resolved.

Two leading supporters of Java, Oracle and IBM, announced a partnership to collaborate on the OpenJDK open source implementation of Java.

Oracle and Apple said that they have formed the OpenJDK project in a move that will give Java a stable port on the Mac OS X.

Like Sun, Oracle intends to exercise its control over the test suite licensing in a manner that will drive open source Java adopters towards OpenJDK, the implementation that it controls.