Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Sun Microsystems is facing reinvigorated competition from Hewlett-Packard, which Monday followed Sun's lead by introducing a clone of Java for gadgets. HP is Sun's friend and foe when it comes to Java ...

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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 ...

Hewlett-Packard is taking on IBM, BEA and Sun/NetScape in the application server middleware arena. The company has unveiled two software suites, under the banners of HP Netaction and HP OpenView, that ...

Sun Microsystems must be breathing more easily with Hewlett-Packard's decision to license Sun's Java Hot Spot virtual machine, incorporating it into HP-UX, and agreeing to support the next release of ...

Hewlett-Packard is sticking to its promise not to fragment Java further than it already has, and will use Sun?s Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for its desktop and server products. Earlier this year, HP ...

Hewlett Packard laid its Java cards on the table at its annual user conference last week, when the company gave its first wholehearted commitment to support the language. Previously, HP has quietly ...

Write once, run everywhere” was Java’s original motto, but "everywhere," over time, has proved hard to find. A late but major step to change that occurred at JavaOne this week when Sun announced that ...

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 ...