While there are plenty of reasons why organisations have moved off Java, resulting in less Oracle JDK deployments, the cost of software licensing is regarded by many as a major contributing factor.

Google wrote new code to execute Java programs according to the exact specifications of Sun's official Java software (Oracle subsequently acquired Sun).

A survey of IT asset managers (ITAM) and software asset managers (SAM) in organisations that use Java has revealed that the majority have experienced an Oracle Java audit in the past three years ...

Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. With each update ...

Days after the US issued a security alert to millions of computer owners to temporarily disable Java, Oracle released an emergency fix to its product and urged it be made as soon as possible.

Google: Oracle Java win will kill software development, so Supreme Court must rule But Oracle says Google's concerns are a smokescreen for a desire to freely copy and make huge profits.

The technology company Oracle is retiring its Java browser plug-in. The software is widely used to write programs that run in web browsers. But Oracle said modern browsers were increasingly ...

Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd Flicker/Oracle PR Oracle is denying that it is increasing audits of customers using a flavor of its popular Java software that is mostly, but not completely, free.

Candidates who hold this certification have demonstrated proficiency in Java (Standard Edition) software development, according to Oracle University, which administers the certificate.

Oracle profits surge—at the expense of Java development and software support Cloud revenues double, license sales shrink, and zero progress on Java EE.