That virtual machine allows Java programs to interact with hardware servers without the need for an operating system, according to Stephen Hess, director of product management for the WebLogic ...

Gary Krakow tests Sun Microsystems' new operating system based on Java and Linux called the Java Desktop System.

As an example, Rappaport cited last year's decision by cable provider Tele-Communications Incorporated to support both Microsoft Windows CE and Sun's Java operating system in future set-top boxes.

Oracle announced the general availability of a completely autonomous operating system at Oracle Code One and Oracle OpenWorld, which kicked off this morning in San Francisco. Both events are ...

The Java Plugin flaw is known to affect both Microsoft’s Windows platform and the Linux operating system. It has also been tested on Internet Explorer and rival browsers Firefox and Opera.

Among the wrinkles still to be ironed out of Microsoft’s Windows Vista before the long-awaited client operating system goes gold is the tendency of Vista’s shiny new “glass” UI to balk at ...

While continuing its recent embrace of Linux and the Intel architecture, Sun Microsystems nonetheless remains committed to its own Sparc chip architecture and Solaris Unix operating system. The ...

Oracle plans to make changes to strengthen the security of Java, including fixing its certificate revocation checking feature, preventing unsigned applets from being executed by default and adding ...

leJOS leJOS is a small Java-based operating system for the Lego Mindstorms RCX. Because the RCX contains just 32 KB of RAM, only a small subset of the JVM and APIs can be implemented on the RCX ...