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Google Would Have Paid up to $50 Million to License Java, Schmidt Reveals in Oracle vs. Google Trial
Google would have paid Sun's asking price of $30-$50 million to license Java, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt stated at the Oracle vs. Google trial. Google didn't object to the amount of money Sun wanted, but it didn't want to give up too much control over Android. J
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Oracle Sues Google over Google Copyrighted Code
The Oracle case against Google focusses on a 9-line piece of code, called 'rangeSort' which appears identical in Android and in OpenJDK. Unfortunately for Oracle, the code was initially written by Joshua Bloch when he was employed at Google, and was subsequently contributed to the OpenJDK by Google. Read on to find out these developments and more.
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Can APIs be Copyrighted?
Whilst the Oracle/Google case was initially based on the assumption that Oracle's patents were valid – now all but demolished – Oracle has switched tack to claim that it is a copyright violation. At heart is the question of whether an API or even a computer language can be copyrightable.
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Java APIs Take Centre Stage in Oracle vs. Google Trial
Last week saw the beginning of the Oracle vs. Google trial. Oracle's main complaint, involving a damages claim of $1bn, is that Android's use of 37 Java APIs infringes its copyright in the Java programming language. Google maintains APIs cannot be copyrighted, and has tried to frame the case as Oracle's response to its own failure to build a Java-based smartphone platform.
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JDK 8 Milestone and Release Dates
Oracle has posted in the jdk8-dev mailing list the JDK 8 milestone and release dates for review and feedback.
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Oracle and Google go to Court
Last month, Judge Paul Grewal ordered the Oracle and Google to attempt to negotiate a settlement. Google offered a $2.8 million settlement on condition that Oracle can prove patent infringement. However, Oracle rejected that offer as too low, so the case will go to court on the 16th April.
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Oracle Big Data Appliance and Connectors Support Integration with Hadoop and Cloudera Manager
Oracle Big Data Appliance and Big Data Connectors support integration with Hadoop, Cloudera Manager and Oracle NoSQL Database. Oracle announced last month the availability of Big Data Appliance and Connectors as well as partnership with Cloudera. They also recently announced the Advanced Analytics for Big Data by integrating R statistical programming language into Oracle Database 11g.
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MySQL Cluster 7.2 Released with 70x Increased Performance and NoSQL Features
Oracle fires a new round for the heart of the NoSQL market. This 7.2 release of MySQL Cluster has new features putting it head to head with other NoSQL solutions including REST, memcached wire protocol, NoSQL C++, and standard MySQL interfaces. Oracle boasts 70x speed gains for complex queries using MapReduce like distributed joins. Is the world ready for a MySQL/NoSQL hybrid from Oracle?
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WebLogic 12c Taking Java EE 6 to the Cloud
At the beginning of December, Oracle released WebLogic Server 12c. The new version of WebLogic is the first release of the application server to fully support the Java EE 6 standard, originally approved in December 2009. In addition, WebLogic Server 12c is a key part of Oracle's entire cloud strategy. InfoQ spoke to Vice President of Development at Oracle, Cameron Purdy to find out more.
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Oracle Provider Gets EF Support
Oracle has recently released Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) 11.2 Rel 4 with support for Entity Framework 4.1 and 4.2. This will allow .NET developers working with Oracle database to work with a popular ORM and use LINQ to Entities for data access operations instead of hand-coding the SQL statements. However Code First and DBContext API are not supported in this release.
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TIBCO's ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Emerges Winner In SOA TCO Study by PushToTest
PushToTest released the results of their 2011 analysis of SOA development and deployment solutions from IBM, Oracle and TIBCO which declared TIBCO the winner on multiple facets of productivity. PushToTest has published all the details including developer journals as an open source SOA Knowledge Kit. InfoQ spoke to Frank Cohen to unravel the details.
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JDK Enhancement Process
In the middle of this year, Oracle launched a new process called the JDK Enhancement Process, or JEP for short. What is it all about?
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ORM Profiler Analyzes Data Access Performance
Solutions Design has released ORM Profiler, a tool meant to help improve data access layer performance. It tracks and logs ADO.NET calls so that developers can analyze their data access and discover potential problems.
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A New Cloud Has Appeared on the Horizon: Oracle Public Cloud
Oracle Public Cloud offers two solutions: SaaS, including Fusion CRM, Fusion HCM, and Social Network, and PaaS, including Java and Database services.
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Oracle Joins the NoSQL Club
Oracle has announced the Big Data Appliance running with Oracle NoSQL Database, a new key-value store based on Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition. Some of features include: billions of rows of storage capacity in records and terabytes in B-tree, ACID transactions, CRUD, sharding, no single point of failure, disaster recovery via datacenter replication.