Despite major changes in licensing and costs, the programming language is still a dominant force in software development.

However, Java wasn’t always open-source. The transition began in 2006 when Sun Microsystems initiated the move toward open-sourcing Java, a process completed in 2011 with Oracle's release of ...

Java has been one of the more popular programming languages and computing platforms on the market since Sun Microsystems released it all the way back in 1995. The free-to-download platform has ...

The Dividend chart for Sun Microsystems (JAVA) shows us the per share payout over time. Dividends are a distribution to shareholders, and they define how much money a company is roviding to its ...

Oracle got Java with its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2009. It first introduced two new licensing models for its commercial Java platform, Standard Edition (Java SE), in April 2019, ...

Oracle refuses to give up the JavaScript trademark, sparking backlash from developers. Could its control impact the language?

Company seeks partial dismissal in trademark cancellation case brought by JavaScript runtime provider Deno Land.

James Gosling invented Java in 1995. It has been kept up to date and now supports artificial intelligence, but Oracle Java is no longer the preferred choice.