Java turned 25 years old in May, marking a quarter of a century in which it has consistently been one of the most widely used programming languages. The IEEE Computer Society lists it as one of the ...

BALTIMORE -- A federal judge filed a court order Tuesday against Microsoft, requiring the software giant to release an updated version of Sun Microsystems' Java ...

With Oracle now trying to get back on track with advancing enterprise Java, the company is seeking rapprochement with factions that had sought to advance the platform on their own. The two groups ...

This is somewhat disingenuous — Oracle would retain the rights to the Java brand, and moving the enormous installed base to a platform with another name, even if it had much the same codebase, would ...