The Java programming language emerged roughly 25 years ago, when Smalltalk and C++ dominated. Back then it was easy to argue that the world didn't need another object-oriented programming language.

My ZDNet colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is eager to step up to Google’s defense in the company’s legal battle with Oracle. To that end, he has written “A Google Android and Java history lesson” ...

The technology is legendary, but how and why Sun Microsystems eventually settled on the name 'Java' was always something of a mystery—even to those involved. When Time magazine called Java one of the ...