Oracle yesterday announced that HP’s ex-CEO Mark Hurd will join the company as co-president and director. While this news brought cheers to Oracle and its investors, HP is quite unhappy about it and has dragged Hurd to the court. HP has filed a complaint Superior Court in Santa Clara County claiming that Hurd’s position […]
Oracle sues Google over Android for infringing Java patents
Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google because it’s open-source system is infringing Java-related patents. Oracle claims Android infringes seven of its patents because the OS’ stack integrates Java-based object-oriented application framework and core libraries. Oracle who bought Sun Microsystems early this year also alleges that due to the recruitment of former Sun Java […]
Oracle takes over Sun Microsystems
While we had an impression that IBM was the most interested to acquire Sun Microsystems, Oracle today announced that they have taken over Sun and will acquire the common stock for $9.50/share. The deal is valued around $7.4 billion which is almost a billion more than what IBM rumored to offer. The acquisition will […]