Java

Major New Release Provides High Availability, Enhanced Scalability and High Performance

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 9, 2009 -- Oracle today announced the new release of Oracle® Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 including significant new features for high availability, scalability and performance, and demonstrating Oracle’s continuing commitment to open source, Java and the developer community.

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 9, 2009 -- Oracle's acquisition of Sun is essential for competition in the high end server market, for revitalizing Sparc and Solaris and for strengthening the Java development platform. The transaction does not threaten to reduce competition in the slightest, including in the database market. The Commission's Statement of Objections reveals a profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open source dynamics.

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Positioned In Leading Industry Analyst Firm's Middleware Study

Raleigh, NC - November 9, 2009 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner, Inc.'s "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers".

Provides Developers With Access to Millions of Paying Consumers for Java Applications

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. November 3, 2009 At PayPal X Innovate 2009, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced an alliance with PayPal to support application payment in the Java Store Beta and enhancements to the beta user experience.

Microsoft teams with Tasktop Technologies and Soyatec on open source projects designed to foster interoperability and make Eclipse a first-class tool on the Microsoft platform.

LUDWIGSBURG, Germany — Oct. 28, 2009 — Part of an ongoing initiative to make its products more open, Microsoft Corp. today announced at the Eclipse Summit Europe new solutions that help developers using the Eclipse platform take advantage of the new features in Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2, and reinforce Java and PHP interoperability with Windows Azure and Microsoft Silverlight.

Delivering Innovations in User Experience, Performance, Interoperability and Search to Industry-Leading Mail, Calendaring and Instant Messaging Platform

SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 29, 2009 To meet the messaging and collaboration needs of the world's largest telcos, leading service providers and most demanding enterprise customers, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), today announced availability of Sun Java Communications Suite 7.

SANTA CLARA, CA, August 19, 2009 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced that its Sun SPARC Enterprise servers with chip multi-threading (CMT) technology set three new world-records on industry-standard e-mail serving and Java benchmarks. These records highlight the enterprise-class performance and significant infrastructure and management cost savings Sun's Open Network Systems with the Solaris Operating System (OS) deliver through the convergence of compute, networking and storage.

Gives Access to Oracle’s Latest Advancements and Innovations as Attendees Learn, Network and Share Ideas at Oracle Develop and Oracle’s Primavera Programs

Redwood Shores, CA, August 11, 2009 -- Customers and partners can take advantage of a wide range of specialized programming at the upcoming Oracle® OpenWorld conference to be held October 11-15, 2009 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Strong Demand Powers 250 Million JavaFX Downloads

JAVAONE CONFERENCE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 2, 2009 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) released the latest updates of the JavaFX platform and Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE). The JavaFX platform provides a unified development and deployment model for building expressive, rich Internet applications (RIAs) across browsers, desktops, mobile devices and TVs. JavaFX 1.2 delivers a new user interface library and performance enhancements to improve the user experience associated with JavaFX applications.

Includes LAMP and Portal Technology Updates and Supports the Preview of the Full Java EE 6 Specification

JAVAONE CONFERENCE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 2, 2009 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced several technology updates to the Sun GlassFish Portfolio, the most complete, open source, high-performance Web application platform. The GlassFish Portfolio is comprised of leading open source technologies, including OpenESB, OpenMQ, Liferay Portal, Sun GlassFish Web Stack and GlassFish - the industry's most downloaded application server.