Squawk is an open source virtual machine for the Java language that examines better ways of building virtual machines. Most commercial virtual machines are written in low level languages such as C and assembler. We believe that virtual machines can be simplified by writing them in a higher level language, and further simplified by implementing the VM in the language that the VM is implementing. This idea was inspired from Squeak, a Smalltalk environment written in Smalltalk.
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freel
And yet, some people expected Sun to go from proprietary kernel development (with a team of proprietary kernel developers, and layers of proprietary software managing managers above them) to a bazaar overnight (or, at the very least, very quickly).
This is the stall in which Google announced the release of their Android platform, which would be able to run Java applications on a mobile phone but it would also be released under the Apache License v2. This raised more than one eyebrowse, and sure did
This is the virtual world server that Sun Labs developed. It's now available under GPL for people to create games and virtual worlds of any description.