A top Red Hat executive has attacked the open-source credentials of its sometime business partner Sun Microsystems.
A day after Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said open-source software is his company's friend, a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy has called upon the server maker to open the code of Java.
Add Sun's Java server software suite to the company's list of open-source candidates.
When it comes to open sourcing Solaris and Java, patents and politics are leading Sun toward a change of heart.
Sun Microsystems may have streamlined its Java development process but some smaller partners are still unhappy.
Scott McNealy sees glory days ahead for new CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Are they cut from the same cloth?
Purchase of a company with close ties to open-source rival MySQL has people wondering about the database giant's motives.
The open-source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is licensed and used. Now the computer services market is changing to keep up.
Sun Microsystems will release a free version of its Java application server, a move designed to encourage more developers to build programs on the software foundation.
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