Google Is Not Giving up Easily in Java/Android Lawsuit
My guess is that this lawsuit is going to take a very long time to come to a conclusion… Google has filed a response to Oracle’s lawsuit filed in August, denying infringement on any of Oracle’s...
View ArticleOracle Pokes Android in the Eye
Google uses Java components in their Android OS that were built by IBM. Now that IBM drops support for these components and jumps on the OpenJDK train together with Oracle, things get trickier for...
View ArticleOracle Continues to Support OpenOffice
Good news for the OpenOffice community. Link : The H Open Source – Oracle continues to support OpenOffice
View ArticleOracle Wants LibreOffice Members to Leave OOo Council
This suggests that Oracle views LibreOffice as a hostile fork and will not join The Document Foundation as some had hoped. Since Oracle expressed earlier this week to keep supporting OpenOffice.org,...
View ArticleOracle Takes U-turn, Announces NoSQL Database
Talking about a U-turn… Oracle must have thought: “If you can’t beat them, join them.” A few quotes from the article on Wired.com that I linked below: Just four months ago, Oracle released a very...
View ArticleOracle Rumored to Buy webOS from Hewlett-Packard
Today I read the post linked below that talks about a rumor that Oracle is planning to buy webOS from Hewlett-Packard. HP became the owner of webOS when it acquired Palm and released the Touchpad a few...
View ArticleSAP Engineer Says Their New HANA Database Runs Circles Around Oracle’s Database
Business Insider has an interesting interview with Vishal Sikka, the SAP engineer that created the HANA database with his team of developers. In the first six months the HANA database generated $200...
View ArticleOracle Drops Final Claim in Patent ‘476
Good news on the Oracle-Google-Android lawsuit. The final claim of the following ridiculous patent has been removed from the case: transitory electrical and electromagnetic signals propagating through...
View ArticleOracle Database Under Threat in SAP Shops?
A number of reporters visiting the Mastering SAP event in Sydney, Australia, wrote that there is a buzz among SAP customers who run their systems on Oracle databases to think about changing their...
View ArticleIs Google Earning More Money from iOS than from Android?
Here is a link to a very interesting opinion post on how much money Google makes from Android compared to iOS. Estimation of the earnings from Android have been based on Google’s proposed settlement of...
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