Sun Microsystems plans to release a developer toolkit tailored to Sun’s N1 architecture for IT infrastructure management. Company officials on Friday afternoon also defended the process for publicly ...

The Santa Clara, Calif., company said the cross-platform technology it created more than 10 years ago will be available under the GNU General Public License, which is the same contract that governs ...

The software development kit will be available in the middle of next year as part of a minor upgrade to the business version of Sun’s StarOffice 6.0, said Joerg Heilig, director of engineering for ...

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. Red ...

Sun also announced a contest for independent game developers that build games with Sun’s Java programming language. Sun has pushed into games in recent years, tapping the growth in the $20 ...

The announcements come as Sun gears up for a major Sun ONE software launch--including a new version of its Sun ONE Application Server and an integrated software platform--on June 19 in San Francisco.