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Sun 'distorts' Definition Of Free Software
News In Schwartz's opening keynote at the JavaOne conference on Monday he spoke about how free price is the most important feature of free and open source software (FOSS). Irakli Nadareishvili, the chief software architect at charitable organisation...
[July 1, 2005, 12:05]
Java Developers Indifferent To Open Source Java
News The majority of Java developers that Builder UK spoke to at the JavaOne conference on Tuesday were not concerned whether or not Sun made its implementation of Java available under an open source licence.
[June 30, 2005, 17:40]
New Java Licence Aims To Spark Innovation
News Sun's new Java Research License will try to strike the right balance between unfettered investigation and legal and technological protection of Java, Gosling said in an interview on Tuesday at the JavaOne trade show in San Francisco.
[June 11, 2003, 7:39]
Keep On Rocking In The Free Code World
Blog Rich Green, Neil Young, & Jonathan Schwartz at JavaOne - Image courtesy of Sun Microsystems But after covering some general session keynote highlights this morning I got dragged (willingly) into a restricted meeting with veteran rocker Neil Young...
[May 6, 2008, 23:51]
Sun: Java To Be 100 Percent Open By Year's End
News Following the announcement of Sun's plans to make Java free and open under the General Public License (GPL) at JavaOne 2006, there have been a few struggles on the path to open source. Phipps said Java is expected to be completely free within the...
[June 23, 2008, 10:24]
Open Source Java Project Wants Code Donations
News There's a lot of software we're hoping could be donated," said Magnusson, speaking at a session at the JavaOne conference last week. Geir Magnusson, a board member at Apache Software Foundation, said developing open source implementations of all...
[July 5, 2005, 15:00]
Adding Flavour To The Java Brew
Blog Almost rounding up an exhausting lap of the show floor (JavaOne is held in the Moscone Centre, the largest column-free space in Los Angeles I think) was Adam Lieber, CEO of Webtide. Although Sun clearly takes on the role of lead ‘barista’ at the...
[May 7, 2008, 1:20]
Start-ups Make Flash And PDF Simpler
News The San Francisco-based software company hopes to engage more developers at this week's JavaOne developers conference in San Francisco. Such files are more compact for transferring by email and can be read by any device loaded with the free Adobe...
[June 10, 2003, 10:34]
Sun Chief Steps Out Of McNealy's Shadow
News If we held a JavaOne and no-one showed up, I'd probably short the stock but, when you have a developer event and the world shows up, that must mean we're doing something right. The global success of JavaOne, which will probably have [had] our...
[May 23, 2007, 15:57]
GlassFish Gives Developers A Glimpse Of Java
News Sun quietly launched GlassFish on 6 June and plans to discuss it at its JavaOne conference, which begins next week in San Francisco. In a 2003 effort to boost the program's fortunes, Sun started giving away the basic Platform Edition for free.
[June 21, 2005, 16:10]
Sun: Open-sourcing Java Is 'done'
News The server and software company officially released the software on its OpenJDK website on Tuesday, at the beginning of the JavaOne Conference. Instead, Phipps had to satisfy himself with an exhortation by Richard Stallman, the visionary who...
[May 10, 2007, 11:43]
HP And Dell To Ship Java With All PCs
News The deals were signed on Wednesday morning, Sun executives announced at the company's JavaOne trade show in San Francisco. Schwartz, who predicted the partnerships last week, thanked HP employees in the JavaOne audience.
[June 12, 2003, 10:00]
Sun Seeks Open-source Middle Ground
News At a debate at the JavaOne conference on Thursday, thousands gathered to hear Sun and others concerned with Java grapple with the issue. If you love it, set it free? The law has tools -- independent of open-source and free software licenses -- for...
[July 5, 2004, 14:45]
Java Brewers To Stir Web Services Pot
News At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, Java software makers will attempt to regain ground lost to Microsoft in the emerging market for Web services development tools and technologies. Many of the JavaOne product announcements are...
[March 25, 2002, 14:56]
Sun Sees Automotive Side To Java
News Clients are back," Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's chief operating officer, told JavaOne attendees on Monday. Schwartz told the JavaOne crowd that in a meeting with an automobile company he had been discussing the $3.5bn market for ring-tone downloads for...
[June 29, 2004, 8:50]
Adobe Opens Parts Of Flash In Mobile Push
News The announcement comes just two days after comments from Mozilla warning developers not to rely on proprietary technology like Flash, and a week before the opening of Sun's JavaOne conference in San Francisco.
[May 1, 2008, 15:38]
IBM Brings 64-bit Java To AIX
News Big Blue made the announcement this week at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. While 64-bit Java software is not yet offered on HP-UX or Sun Solaris, we will be offering a free download of our AIX developer kit, Java 2 Technology Edition...
[June 7, 2001, 10:34]
Sun And Liferay Launch Web-presentation Platform
News Sun used day two of its JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday to announce a new web-presentation initiative in association with open-source enterprise portal Liferay. Although free to download, Sun openly stated that it plans...
[May 8, 2008, 9:27]
Sun Gears Solaris For Linux Users
News Though he wouldn't confirm the name of the project, Murdock — who's from Indiana — discussed the project's essence at the JavaOne Conference on Monday, and Sun spokesman Russ Castronovo confirmed the name.
[May 10, 2007, 10:38]
Sun To Sell Zaurus At JavaOne
News Sun Microsystems will be selling the long-awaited Zaurus SL-5500 Linux-based handheld computer at the JavaOne developer conference beginning on Monday in New York, as a publicity exercise and to raise awareness of the proliferation of Java in...
[March 22, 2002, 18:04]
