Google has failed in its latest attempt to keep a potentially damaging email out of the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile OS.
Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over alleged Java patent and copyright violations in the Android mobile OS will go to trial as soon as mid-March.
In a clear sign of the influence consumer mobile devices are having in the enterprise Oracle has flagged that it plans to make available iPad- and Android-compatible versions of its traditional ERP and CRM suites as well as its latest Fusion apps.
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At its JavaOne conference, Oracle showed JavaFX rich client software running on both an Apple iPad and a Google Android-based Samsung Galaxy tablet and introduced a separate project using HTML5 to bring Java to Apple’s iOS platform, called Project Ava…
Two days of face-to-face mediation talks between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Google CEO Larry Page over the companies’ Android mobile OS lawsuit have yet to result in a settlement, but negotiations could continue, according to court documents.
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