Oracle vs. SAP Software Piracy Verdict: SAP to Pay $1.3 Billion to Oracle

After an 11 day trial, whose highlights included "Where In The World Is HP CEO Leo Apotheker?." The Oracle vs. SAP intellectual property case has finally ended in a whopping $1.3 billion dollar verdict. The amount of the verdict was the biggest point of contention, as Oracle lawyers pushed for $1.7 billion in damages while SAP legal thought that the number was more in the $40 million range.

Oracle vs. SAP Software Piracy Verdict: SAP to Pay $1.3 Billion to Oracle

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Apple, along with Oracle to launch Java SE 7 for Mac OS X

All Apple fans, followers and especially its close Java community associates would have definitely been disturbed and shocked by Apple’s recent announcement that it would deprecate and denounce the including of the Java runtime in its Mac OS X. It was almost as though Apple was warning developers of the fact that Java would henceforth not be entailed in future versions of the Mac OS X; and by this there hovered a depressed and uncertain cloud over Java’s future associations with Apple’s Mac.

Apple, along with Oracle to launch Java SE 7 for Mac OS X

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Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave

Elektroschock writes "In an unprecedented move with respect to other forks, Oracle asked the founders of the Document Foundation and LibreOffice to leave the OpenOffice.org Community Council. Apparently there is a conflict of interest, which concerns the Oracle employees."

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