Sun Microsystems Inc. is pulling back plans to market and sell its Linux-based desktop operating system and is considering giving the technology to the open-source community, the company quietly ...

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun hopes the combo will attract custom system builders. John Fowler, Sun's CTO for Software, acknowledged, though, that the Java Desktop System would initially only exploit ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Sun Microsystems is pulling back plans to market and sell its Linux-based desktop operating system and is considering giving the technology to the open-source community, the company ...

Most Linux distributions do not preinstall Java-based deployment and development environments. Installing and configuring them is often left to administrators, and if there are many different versions ...