When it comes to operating systems, Microsoft, IBM and Apple aren’t the only mega-companies with all the knowledge. Sun, with its Solaris OS, has years of expertise with Unix-based operating systems.

Microsoft Corp. does not have to include a rival's software in its Windows operating system, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in overturning a judge's order. Though the court upheld a ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

AWT: Abstract Windowing Toolkit, the part of Java that gives programmers the language’s graphical user interface (GUI). CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture, a standard for communicating ...

BEA Systems has created a version of its Java application server designed for virtualization technology, using an approach that cuts the operating systems out of the picture. At the company's customer ...