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BURLINGAME, Calif. -- The Java computing language has finally proven to be the money-maker that Sun Microsystems always insisted it would be. Everyone, except perhaps Oracle shareholders, should ...
Oracle’s commitment to invest in Java may mean it will go full-force at trying to make money off of Java, a path Sun has not pursued strongly. “I think that they will realize that they want as ...
Sun executives were hardly happy when Google revealed how Android would make use of some Java technology without paying Sun any license fees. But it took Oracle's cold calculation and financial ...
Oracle's Sun Java Strategy: Business as Usual Jan. 28, 2010 5:16 AM ET ORCL, JAVA-OLD, MSFT IBM CSCO VMW DELL 2 Comments Dana Gardner 134 Follower s ...
Updated: Oracle said Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in cash, or about $5.6 billion excluding debt, in a deal that plunges Larry Ellison & Co. into the hardware market ...
LinkedIn's Kreps, like others we've interviewed for this story, thinks that Oracle has done a pretty good job managing its Java open source project since it shelled out $7.4 billion for Sun back ...
Oracle has been cast in the villain's role for a long time—particularly since the company acquired Sun Microsystems and gained ownership of Sun's wide-spanning collection of open source software ...
Bug 319514 in the Eclipse bug database has all the gory details, but in a nutshell, Oracle changed the company name property on java.exe from "Sun Microsystems, Inc" to "Oracle".
Oracle To Buy Sun -- Press Release Apr 20, 2009, 08:19am EDTJul 11, 2012, 07:34pm EDT ...
Oracle’s plans for Java and the proposed Sun Cloud public computing platform became clearer Wednesday, with Oracle executives giving another big thumbs-up to Java but a thumbs-down to Sun Cloud.