Sometimes the best things in life are free, like fresh air and sunshine, but not software. Until recently, a professional-grade IDE could have cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. However, ...

Diffblue, a UK-based startup founded by University of Oxford researchers and focused on automating software development through artificial intelligence (AI), today announced that it is making a free ...

Sun Microsystems intends to commence open-sourcing Java by the end of this year and complete the process in 2007, according to the company's executive vice president of software, Rich Green. Last ...

The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

The Java virtual machine manages application memory and provides a portable execution environment for Java-based applications. Developers reap the rewards in performance, stability, and predictable ...

Open source code for commercial software applications is ubiquitous, but so is the risk Your email has been sent It was almost exactly one year ago that experts found ...

COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there’s over ...