Oracle of course acquired Java's then owner, Sun Microsystems, in 2009 saying Java was the most important software Oracle had ever acquired. Just over a year later it sued Google over its use of ...

Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. With each update ...

Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd Flicker/Oracle PR Oracle is denying that it is increasing audits of customers using a flavor of its popular Java software that is mostly, but not completely, free.

Oracle's overall revenue was down, largely because of its shrinking "on premises" software sales, which fell by $224 million versus 4Q FY2015 and by $1.245 billion (£0.85 billion) for the year as ...

Oracle aims to broaden the adoption of GraalVM by eliminating differences in release schedules, development processes, and features between GraalVM and Java.

They may have a significant investment already in Java SE and know they can look to Oracle for comprehensive software support and consistent updates.

Days after the Department of Homeland Security said computer users should remove the latest versions of its Java software, Oracle Corp. says it has fixed the flaw, in a new update released Monday ...

This new approach mandates that any organization using Oracle Java beyond its free-use allowances must license the software for every employee, regardless of how many actually use Java.

While there are plenty of reasons why organisations have moved off Java, resulting in less Oracle JDK deployments, the cost of software licensing is regarded by many as a major contributing factor.

Oracle accompanied its fix with another change: The updated version's default security setting is now "high" rather than "medium," so that users will be asked to sign off case by case on many Java ...