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Oracle and IBM have unveiled a new collaboration that will allow developers and customers to build and innovate based on existing Java investments and the OpenJDK (Java Development Kit) reference ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Oracle and IBM announced plans to collaborate to enable ...

As it switches to a paid support model for Java, Oracle may leave a considerable amount of money on the table for competitors to swoop in and grab. Although many customers will continue to choose to ...

The vast majority of developers who use a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) language still use Java, but a sizable chunk of the population is shifting to Kotlin, a JVM-compatible language developed by ...

There’s been a tectonic shift in open source land, as IBM throws its weight behind Oracle’s OpenJDK and its Java Community Process. It’s backing away from the Apache Software Foundation’s Harmony ...

Brian Goetz, Oracle's Java language architect, has been talking for quite a while about the need for new features in Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to improve its typing system on several ...

Many organisations poised to migrate from Oracle Java SE will wonder how long the process will take. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer to that question, though. The time needed for a migration ...

Google has announced a move away from Oracle’s proprietary Java APIs. Beginning with the next version of their mobile operating system (Android N), the new standard will be OpenJDK, an open source ...

IBM has announced its intention to join the OpenJDK project, the official open source Java runtime effort that is led by Oracle. IBM's move to take a more active role in OpenJDK could end the ...

The Oracle v. Google legal battle over the use of Java in Android keeps on going, but this week Google made a change to Android that it hopes will let the company better navigate its current legal ...