Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun hopes the combo will attract custom system builders. John Fowler, Sun's CTO for Software, acknowledged, though, that the Java Desktop System would initially only exploit ...

Most Linux distributions do not preinstall Java-based deployment and development environments. Installing and configuring them is often left to administrators, and if there are many different versions ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is pulling back plans to market and sell its Linux-based desktop operating system and is considering giving the technology to the open-source community, the company quietly ...

Java Desktop System will continue to exist, but expect to see "less of an emphasis" on it, company's top software exec says. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Sun Microsystems' Java Desktop System is a challenger to Windows that isn't quite ready for home users.But it is good enough to help scare Microsoft into cutting its prices. That's a huge benefit, ...

The U.K.’s National Health Service said this week that it purchased 5,000 licenses for Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java Desktop System (JDS) as an alternative to Windows, in a move that could potentially ...