Last November, VC firm Thoma Brava closed an investment in open source Java specialist Azul, becoming its leading backer.

It’s no surprise that Sun Microsystems is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor’s choice of open-source license. In all the open sourcing of its ...

The Santa Clara, Calif., company said the cross-platform technology it created more than 10 years ago will be available under the GNU General Public License, which is the same contract that governs ...

Azul has acquired Payara, adding a Jakarta EE application server business to Azul’s Java runtime and support portfolio. The combined company is positioning itself as a commercially supported, ...

The company is very close to announcing that it will put the mobile (ME) and standard (SE) editions of the Java platform into the GNU General Public License (GPL), with the Java Enterprise Edition and ...

With Java application servers rapidly becoming a commodity item, it’s no surprise that we’re now beginning to see open source implementations of other elements of the enterprise middleware stack. In ...

The strategic acquisition bolsters Azul’s Java platform with complementary products, deep Java expertise and accelerated ...

Red Hat has signed on to participate in Sun Microsystems’ open-source Java Standard Edition (SE) project, OpenJDK, and to coordinate its own Java development efforts for Linux with the project. Red ...

With a growing number of companies using Java-based applications to anchor Web services and service-oriented architectures, it’s not surprising the big themes of the JavaOne show last week centered on ...