Open source Java heating up Peter Yared, formerly of Sun and now CEO of ActiveGrid, posted an open letter to Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz regarding open sourcing Java on his blog.

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome.

Leading a small groundswell of open-source customer relationship management offerings is SugarCRM Inc., which reports more than 21,000 downloads of its initial open-source sales force automation ...

Businesses that love Java and are looking to move to open source may want to give Compiere a look. The system is a complete ERP and CRM suite that includes accounting, order entry, customer ...

Red Hat has signed on to participate in Sun Microsystems’ open-source Java Standard Edition (SE) project, OpenJDK, and to coordinate its own Java development efforts for Linux with the project.

Java have been audited in the past three years. This has led to a surge in the migration to open-source Java, with many users expressing dissatisfaction with Oracle’s pricing model.

Open-source CRM projects and products are becoming an attractive fourth alternative in the CRM solution space. While premier open-source products -- such as SugarCRM and Concursive's Concourse ...

Java 8 is set to be released this fall, while Java 9 is scheduled for next year. UPDATE [September 12, 19:00 ET]: Oracle announced it has selected the Eclipse Foundation as Java EE's new home.

The Market Open-source technology hasn’t yet landed a starring role in the overall CRM and enterprise resource planning (ERP) industries, says Mitchell Lieberman, president and chief executive officer ...

Users shouldn't get hung up on typical open source concerns of code openness and community passion -- they don't measure viability SugarCRM’s recent launch of Sugar 6 CRM raised the thorny ...