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27 May 2006, 4:01 pm
Sponsors of the event included Answers.com, SocialText, Sun Microsystems, DocCheck and Logos Group. [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 12:47 pm by Marina Chafa
Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, including its intellectual property, for around $7.4 billion. [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 10:00 am by Jani Ihalainen
This blog has discussed the Court of Appeals (where Google was found to have infringed the code's copyright protection through verbatim copying into its Android operating system) decision some two years ago, but many have waited for the jury decision in the saga, which was handed down only a month ago.By way of a short primer for those who have not followed the matter closely, the case dealt with 37 API packages released by Oracle (at the time Sun Microsystems) which pertained… [read post]
28 May 2012, 2:33 am by Laura Sandwell, Matrix.
Oracle America Inc (formerly Sun Microsystems Inc) v M-Tech Data Ltd, heard 30 April – 1 May 2012. [read post]
6 Mar 2011, 8:07 am by Sam Conforti
 Support levels and upgrades are part of the selling feature of any SaaS initiative and so these must be clearly spelled out in the contract, usually via a separate Support Schedule attached to the terms and conditions and incorporated by reference. [read post]
29 Nov 2013, 2:44 am by Florian Mueller
But this is really about two platforms: Java, which Oracle acquired as part of its $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, and Android, which lets programmers write apps in Java that generally won't run on Oracle's original Java. [read post]
12 May 2014, 2:04 pm by Florian Mueller
Google never saw a need to negotiate a license with Apple before launching Android, but it was negotiating with Sun Microsystems about Java years ago, before it elected to infringe.Q: Could Google solve the problem by making another programming language, such as Go or Dart, the primary language for Android app development? [read post]
8 Apr 2021, 9:52 am by Eric Goldman
In the 1990s, Sun Microsystems developed the Java programming language and invited all programmers to use it. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 6:26 am by Chris Skelton
In August 1998, two Stanford University graduate students met with Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim at the home of a Stanford professor. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 2:40 am by Florian Mueller
Google Android-Java copyright infringement litigation would never have happened if Google had adopted Java under the GPL (the license under which Sun Microsystems already made Java code available before being acquired by Oracle), but it feared that copyleft would prevent its device makers from differentiating through proprietary add-ons.The original right holder, Apple in this case, still remains free to make the same code available on two ("dual-licensing") or more… [read post]
17 May 2010, 9:58 pm
Sun Microsystems published a benchmark (showing measurements taken using ftp servers with a 1MB file) showing an improvement of 40% in the throughput and 20% less CPU utilization in servers that use Zero-Copy I/O. [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 7:30 am by Wells Bennett
Previously she was a Senior Staff Privacy Analyst at Google and a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and has taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Wesleyan University. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 5:05 am
Excerpt #2 - A Decade On: Much Changed, Much Still To Unfold Excerpt #3 - How the Traditional Role of Lawyers Will Change Related Links of Interest: Real Estate Certification a Death Knell to Solos Don't Be A Prisoner to Certification GC Mike Dillon of Sun Microsystems Seeks out Smaller Firms Three Young Lawyers..... [read post]
22 May 2016, 7:17 am by Florian Mueller
And the law.The only regard in which Google has a point is that Sun Microsystems' management, including one of the industry's worst CEOs ever, failed to make it consistently clear to Google that the way it incorporated the Java API headers into Android was against the law. [read post]
12 May 2014, 4:20 am by Terry Hart
The Litigation The facts of the dispute are essentially this: Sun Microsystems (which has since been acquired by Oracle) developed the Java platform in 1996 with the idea of creating a virtual machine that allowed software to run on any platform or operating system – allowing programmers to “write once, run anywhere. [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 11:59 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
  As to history, within the decision 457 F.3d 1279 (CAFC 2006) , one finds the text: In 1999, Eolas Technologies Incorporated and The Regents of the University of California (collectively, Eolas) sued Microsoft, alleging that Microsoft's Internet Explorer infringed claims of U.S. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 8:45 pm
., which was later purchased by software company Novell, Inc. in April 1994.In October 1993, Novell signed a non-binding "term sheet" agreement with several companies (Hewlett Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems) which set forth a framework for a future definitive agreement among the parties. [read post]
8 Jul 2008, 2:52 pm
Another presidential order issued shortly after the attacks, the text of which is classified, opened the door for the NSA to incorporate more domestic data in its searches, one senior intelligence official said.The NSA "strictly follows laws and regulations designed to preserve every American's privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. [read post]