Oracle pointed to its decision last year to accelerate the release schedule for the Java SE Platform and the JDK as part of the motivation for the separation. That accelerated release cadence provides ...

The growth has put Kotlin in second place, albeit well behind Java, but now ahead of Clojure and Scala. Oracle JDK – Java Development Kit – is also losing share to OpenJDK alternatives.

Oracle's move to a six-month Java release cadence and paid subscriptions for Java support has caused some of its enterprise customers to look at alternatives to the Oracle JDK, such as OpenJDK ...

According to a new survey by Azul Systems, 80% of Oracle JDK users are currently considering other options for enterprise Java support.

During the opening keynote at JavaOne this year, Oracle announced plans to release Java SE under GPL and to open-source all the features in Oracle’s JDK. The vendor also admitted that Java EE ...

Oracle has proposed several new implementation milestones for version 8 of the Java Development Kit (JDK 8), beginning with Milestone 1 on April 24 and ending with Milestone 6 on Jan. 30, 2013.

IBM on Monday threw its support behind Oracle's OpenJDK (Java Development Kit) plans, abandoning its work with Apache's Harmony Java project - the underlying technology Oracle has disputed Google ...

Free is not a good dealOracle this week made Oracle JDK “available for free,” for personal, commercial and production use, including quarterly security updates, for a limited time. However ...