Those of you who are eager to know which of the two main open source Java based IDEs Oracle would support — NetBeans, which is a product Oracle has inherited from Sun, or Eclipse, which was originally ...

SAN FRANCISCO — BEA Systems’ decision to offer its WebLogic Workshop run-time framework under an open source format, through its Project Beehive effort, may prompt the company to reconsider its ...

I recently started a new project in my lab where I'm required to use either NetBeans or Eclipse. I'm currently running Lion and was wondering what your experiences were with either of these. I've ...

Two weeks ago, the chief executives at Oracle and Sun Microsystems united on stage to tout their partnership, but already the two companies aren't seeing eye to eye on one issue. The companies differ ...

Simon Phipps, chief technology evangelist, Sun Microsystems Inc. Sun objected to joining Eclipse on grounds that it would be required to transition to Eclipse. IBM claims there’s no such requirement.

Does the newly independent Eclipse Foundation represent the way IBM thought Sun should have handled Java? Certainly IBM would like to see a more open Java process than there is. I think Eclipse is ...