Oracle, which acquired Java when it bought Sun Microsystems in 2010, has not yet issued a security patch for this particular vulnerability.
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Oracle obtained Java when it purchased Sun Microsystems in early 2010.
Some cable firms will succumb to Microsoft's pitch, but most prefer an open standard, possibly based on the Java programming language developed by Sun Microsystems.
They also must be able to run over a number of different operating systems, such as Qualcomm 's Brew, Sun Microsystems' Java and Microsoft 's Windows Mobile.
If you liked the trial, you'll love the judge's greatest-hits collection of Microsoft skullduggery: binding its Internet Explorer browser into Windows just to beat out Netscape, bullying Intel into staying out of the software market, polluting Sun Microsystems' Java programming language to diminish the competitive threat it posed to Windows, threatening IBM.
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Sun Microsystems invented the Java language and started a mass exodus of computer programming talent away from Microsoft toward Sun.
Digital is hosting a pavilion for Internet innovators and Sun Microsystems sponsors a Java Pavilion for developers of its programming language.
But Microsoft had identified others, including Sun Microsystems's Java technologies, Intel's Native Signal Processing, and multimedia playback software developed by Apple and RealNetworks.
Oracle bought the Java programing language through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010.
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James Gosling, the Sun Microsystems engineer who devised Java, has a project called "Jackpot, " aimed at creating a common translator for the many software languages now in use.
For example, Sun Microsystems traded under the symbol JAVA, one of its chief software programs.
Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) has taken the second approach.
To be sure, struggling server vendor Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) sounded a downbeat note during its earnings call last week, sending technology shares broadly lower.
An editorial in The Wall Street Journal Tuesday aimed to sully the reputation and even the motives of Vinod Khosla, a founder of Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) who is now a billionaire venture capitalist and leader in the biofuels arena.
Org is filling up a 24-terabyte Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) server with case law going back to 1754. (That's a lot of bytes, enough to type out 12 million novels.) Malamud bought some data from Fastcase while building his service, which is available for free on the Web.
To add to the menace, the new Java programming language, developed by another Microsoft enemy, Sun Microsystems, had the potential to create applications programmes that could be pulled down from servers linked to the Internet and would run on any operating system.
The Java programming language was developed in the good old days by Sun Microsystems.
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Oracle, the database-software behemoth, is buying Sun Microsystems, which sells big computers as well as software ranging from Java tools to open-source databases.
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