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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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 In a keynote at Sun's JavaOne developer conference on Tuesday, Java creator James Gosling announced that Sun will add assertions and generics to Java because they are the two most popular developer requests.
[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 On Thursday, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson followed up on that assertion.A goodly part of the cross examination [by Microsoft] had to do with evidence that what Microsoft did was grasp the significance of the work you were doing and run with it...
[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]
Java Under The Microscope
News James Gosling is the man behind the technology. 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.
[July 4, 2005, 20:00]
US Report: MS Claims Java Is A 'double' Standard
News On the stand, Sun Vice President and Java co-inventor James Gosling was grilled by Microsoft attorney Tom Burt about his company's relationship with Netscape. Hardly, Gosling replied. WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp.on Wednesday moved to discredit Sun...
[December 10, 1998, 18:41]
Sun Sheds Light On Its Open-source Future
News Echoing the words of James Gosling, the father of the Java programming language, Phipps said that, after more than a decade of Java development, the time is right for "the next chapter" in software programming.
[April 29, 2008, 13:16]
Sun Wants Java To Share More
News NetBeans 4.0 will add "refactoring" technology that makes it easier to manage large coding projects, garnered from the research of James Gosling, the newly named chief technology officer of Sun's platforms group.
[December 5, 2003, 10:30]
Sun Previews JavaFX For Rich Web Applications
News Despite some delays due to faltering live technology, presentations by Sun fellow James Gosling and executive vice president of software Rich Green featured Movie Cloud, a 3D graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying multiple high-definition...
[May 7, 2008, 11:24]
