Previous
Pioneer sees Java in watches, phones, smart cards
News SAN FRANCISCO-Java has developed far beyond what James Gosling originally pictured, and it will continue to change the way people communicate with each other, the creator of Java said at the Software Development '98 conference here Thursday.
[February 13, 1998, 9:48]
Sun prepares for MySQL tuning
News The "Father of Java" James Gosling has revealed that Sun will not be introducing a new API for MySQL but that it will probably do a lot more tuning work around it. At the Sun Tech Days in Sydney, Gosling said many tools that handle databases use...
[March 18, 2008, 7:52]
Sun builds on JavaFX Script
News Java has come full circle, and James Gosling has watched the 12-year journey. Sun is trying again, and Gosling, chief technologist for Sun's client software group, has talked about the plans. Gosling: JavaFX describes a series of client initiatives...
[May 14, 2007, 13:43]
Java guru: C# misses the point
News Java inventor James Gosling says he isn't losing much sleep over Microsoft these days, despite the software giant's effort to stem Java's popularity with its own Java-like language. Gosling, a Sun vice president, is dismissive of C# but admits he...
[January 21, 2002, 11:16]
New Java licence aims to spark innovation
News Java inventor James Gosling on Wednesday will unveil a new licence intended to spark vigorous research into new directions for the programming technology. Sun's new Java Research License will try to strike the right balance between unfettered...
[June 11, 2003, 7:39]
Java founder condemns Sun-Kodak patent settlement
News The father of Java -- James Gosling -- has called the recent court case between Sun and Eastman Kodak over patents "a complete atrocity". One of these days we need to write up a pretty thorough account of what happened during the case, but it...
[December 17, 2004, 7:50]
'Huge security hole' in .Net
News James Gosling, who is currently CTO of Sun's Developer Products group and the father of the Java programming language, has called Microsoft's decision to support C and C++ in the common language runtime in .Net one of the "biggest and most...
[February 4, 2005, 9:00]
Java creator questions Sun/Microsoft pact
News The father of Java, James Gosling, has questioned the technical relationship between Sun and Microsoft in light of the antitrust demands of the European Union on the world's biggest software maker. Questioned about the technical collaboration...
[February 3, 2005, 11:10]
US Report: Gates, Boies in 'pissing' match
News The screening of more than a half-hour of the Microsoft chairman's taped deposition, taken Aug.was the government's lead-in to its next witness -- James Gosling, a Sun Microsystems Inc.fellow and co-creator of Java.
[December 4, 1998, 5:14]
Sun updates Java for geeks
News Gosling shared the stake with Nokia President Pekka Ala-Pietila, who committed to shipping 50 million Java phones by the end of 2002 and over 100 million by the end of 2003. In a keynote at Sun's JavaOne developer conference on Tuesday, Java...
[June 7, 2001, 8:41]
Sun reveals future Java foundations
News Sun aims to release this summer a version 4.0 update of its NetBeans open-source development tools that will incorporate the enhancements of the Java platform update, said James Gosling, chief technology officer of Sun's developer tools division.
[February 6, 2004, 9:10]
US Report: Judge persuaded by MS testimony in DoJ trial
News Under examination by lead government attorney David Boies, Gosling again conceded that Microsoft had produced a good "virtual machine" that would run Java applications on any Windows PC. On Thursday, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson followed up on...
[December 11, 1998, 9:14]
Java steps closer to open source
News Sun has elected not to use an open source licence at this time because its commercial customers are concerned with "forking", said James Gosling, chief technology officer at Sun's developer products group.
[March 17, 2005, 8:40]
IBM calls on Sun to open up Java
News Sun regularly considers whether and how it should make Java open source, Java inventor James Gosling said in a recent interview with CNET News.com. But these internal discussions have never yielded a full embrace of open source, said Gosling, who...
[February 26, 2004, 7:25]
Microsoft on Trial: MS 'crossed the line' says economist
News Earlier, Sun executive and Java inventor James Gosling testified Microsoft had produced a "polluted" version of the Java programming language that will work only on Windows-based computers in order to undermine the threat "pure" Java poses to...
[January 6, 1999, 11:57]
Sun introduces Java app store
News At JavaOne in San Francisco, Sun fellow James Gosling and chief executive Jonathan Schwartz demo the company's new online store. The Java store will distribute and sell mobile apps based on the Java programming language.
[June 4, 2009, 12:58]
Java under the microscope
News Gosling is on constant display at JavaOne trade show this week, now sporting a mane of white hair and an invariable outfit of jeans, T-shirt and Birkenstock shoes. James Gosling is the man behind the technology.
[July 4, 2005, 20:00]
Java geek hits the Jackpot
News Take a look at Sun Microsystems' recently relaunched Java developer Web site, and you'll see something new: a picture of James Gosling. Despite being one of the primary inventors of the popular development language, Gosling spent the last couple...
[January 29, 2004, 14:05]
For Once, I Agree
Talkback I have known of Stallman since the mid-80's, when he was pushing GNU Emacs (as part of the GNU project) and I was working on Gosling Emacs. I've always had a lot of respect for him - you've got to respect someone who believes so whole-heartedly in...
[October 1, 2008, 10:19]
Countdown to CeBIT
News ZDNet UK is scheduled to interview the "Father of Java" James Gosling, to get his take on open-source directions for Sun. Gosling will also speak at a conference in Westminster on Tuesday afternoon. One of the highlights of the European tech...
[March 13, 2007, 7:46]
