Oracle introduced its new open-source framework, Helidon, in September 2018. Originally named Java for Cloud, Helidon is a collection of Java libraries for creating microservices-based applications.

Updated: Oracle said Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in cash, or about $5.6 billion excluding debt, in a deal that plunges Larry Ellison & Co. into the hardware market ...

Java is supported by Oracle, Sun, BEA Systems, IBM and others as competition for Microsoft's own proprietary method of writing software.

In 2010, Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems -- the company that built Java -- and now that it controls the programming platform, it's accusing Google of patent and copyright infringement.

The seeds for the infringement suit against Google and Android were sown at Sun, but it took Oracle's financial power to bring them to fruition.

And Oracle is annoyed because it and Sun failed to popularize Java-based smartphones. Those bullets are designed to counter Oracle's argument that Google ripped off Java and called it Android.

Oracle’s commitment to invest in Java may mean it will go full-force at trying to make money off of Java, a path Sun has not pursued strongly. “I think that they will realize that they want as ...

LinkedIn's Kreps, like others we've interviewed for this story, thinks that Oracle has done a pretty good job managing its Java open source project since it shelled out $7.4 billion for Sun back ...