Sun Microsystems

The suit started back in 2010, when Oracle sued Google after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems that created Java. A district court ruled in 2012 that the APIs could not be copyrighted. As with many court cases, this one was pushed up to an appeals court that overturned the ruling, indicating the APIs ...

Both Netflix and Facebook — despite their recent travails — are among several technology companies that are trading over 10 times revenue, a level that the CEO of Sun Microsystems asked fund managers after the boom: 'What were you thinking of buying shares at such ratings?' Netflix and Facebook ...

Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, reacts to the privacy scandal plaguing Facebook, which reportedly allowed a political consulting firm to ... A co-founder of Sun Microsystems has advice for Facebook users who are unhappy with the social media giant in light of the privacy scandal that ...

Oracle acquired the Java code with the purchase of Sun Microsystems the same year. U.S. Circuit Court Judge Kathleen O'Malley wrote for the appeals court, saying: “There is nothing fair about taking a copyrighted work verbatim and using it for the same purpose and function as the original in a competing ...

I have been in IT since 1983, as a computer engineer, an inventor of computer products and solutions, a division leader of a very large computer company, Sun Microsystems, and now co-owner of a local software company. I am also now running for the Michigan Senate, District 12. Q: How has the ...

Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, reacts to the privacy scandal plaguing Facebook, which reportedly allowed a political consulting firm to ... A co-founder of Sun Microsystems has advice for Facebook users who are unhappy with the social media giant in light of the privacy scandal that ...

Lockheed Martin Ventures was also listed as a new investor, alongside Sun Microsystems co-founder and early Google investor Andy Bechtolsheim. Existing investors DFJ, Lux Capital, Data Collective and AME Cloud Ventures also invested in the round. The company has now raised $56 million to date.

I have been in IT since 1983, as a computer engineer, an inventor of computer products and solutions, a division leader of a very large computer company, Sun Microsystems, and now co-owner of a local software company. I am also now running for the Michigan Senate, District 12. Q: How has the ...

This interoperability information was indispensable for sun Microsystems so that its systems get integrated with the Microsoft's. Microsoft was held liable for abusing its dominant position for not divulging the essential information. The case is reported as Case T-201/04, Microsoft vs Commission (2007) ECR ...

Google had copied Sun Microsystems' Java – it took the technology then built useful new bits on it for Android – without a license. Internally, Google's Android team knew they should get a license and said so, but Sun, which at the time was in its Kumbaya era under its ponytailed CEO Jonathan Schwartz, ...

Instead of licensing the Java platform from Sun Microsystems to let developers build Java-compatible apps, Google chose to create its own software with Java APIs, or tools and systems used by developers. Oracle, which gained the rights to Java when it acquired Sun Microsystems, took issue with the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — At its annual GTC event, Nvidia announced system-level enhancements to boost the performance of its GPUs in training neural networks and a partnership with ARM to spread its technology into inference jobs. Nvidia offered no details of its roadmap, presumably for 7-nm graphics ...

The principals of Silverton Partners have over five decades of venture experience, having been the start-up investors in Tivoli Systems (IPO), Silicon Labs (IPO), Motive Communications (IPO), Waveset (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and BlackLocus (acquired by The Home Depot). More information on ...

Java was created by Sun Microsystems Inc. in the 1990s, and some have accused Oracle of violating Sun's pledge to ensure that Java is widely available. Oracle bought Sun in January 2010 for US$7.4 billion and sued Google fewer than eight months later. Part of Google's defense focused on the idea that ...

The son of Scott McNealy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, whose net worth is estimated at $1 billion, Maverick, 22, is far more modest and ambitious than a privileged upbringing might lead you to believe. We talked with Maverick about his childhood, his prospects for making the PGA Tour and how he ...

The back-and-forth legal battle between Oracle and Google over the extent to which copyright law protected the Java programming language swung back in Oracle's favor on Tuesday. In the latest development in the eight-year case, a federal appellate court reversed a jury verdict that found Google did not ...

Oracle filed suit against Google shortly after its 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the company that built the Java language and platform. In 2012, a district court ruled that APIs aren't subject to copyright. That decision was overturned by an appeals court and returned to the same district court for a jury ...

He later helped Sun Microsystems turn his team's work into its flagship SPARC line of chips. Wednesday, Hennessy and Patterson were awarded the Turing Award, computing's equivalent of a Nobel Prize for their work on RISC. The two didn't invent RISC themselves. They and their teams built on existing ...

One minute we're talking about the history of web browsers, the next we're kind of talking about the Pentagon in the 1960s and then the interactive TV speculation of the 1970s, then we get 10 seconds on the development of Java at Sun Microsystems and before you know it we're talking about self-driving ...

When Sun Microsystems acquired our company in 2000, we renamed it Sun Grid Engine which eventually became Oracle Grid Engine until the intellectual property was acquired by Univa in 2013. And here we are, integrating our software container technology into Univa Grid Engine and proudly reselling ...

At the height of the tech boom Sun Microsystems stock traded at 10 times revenue. Two years after the bust, then-boss Scott McNeely called the assumptions underlying that valuation "ridiculous". In a rhetorical question aimed at the investment community at large, he asked: "What were you thinking?".

The issues date back to 2008, when Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, bought the 89-acre property south of Half Moon Bay for $32.5 million. The Deeney family that sold Martins Beach had, for almost a century, maintained a public bathroom, parking lot, even a general store. Surfers, fishermen and ...

San Francisco: Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla is asking the nation's highest court to help him keep surfers from using his beach. Khosla, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, filed his petition to the Supreme Court on Thursday following a 4-year court battle in which he sought to persuade the state ...