The deals to ship Sun's Java technology in all the PC makers' machines are a poke in the eye for Microsoft, which has been lackluster in its support for the software. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

IBM will abandon the Apache Harmony open-source implementation of Java and work with Oracle on the OpenJDK project instead, the companies have announced. The collaboration will make the OpenJDK the ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems signed deals Wednesday under which Dell Computer and Hewlett-Packard will ship Java technology on all PCs, a move that bypasses Microsoft's reluctance to distribute the ...

June 11, 2003 — Sun Microsystems announced agreements with Hewlett-Packard and Dell Computer to distribute Sun’s Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on desktop personal computers sold by the two companies.