Java trial judge William Alsup has ordered Oracle to pay $1,130,350 for Google’s court costs, mostly for a court-appointed expert witness. Google, the “prevailing party,” wanted $4,030,699, but the judge cut it back $2,900,349 refusing to accept its bill for third-party e-discovery. Oracle failed to convince the court and the jury that Android infringes its patents and copyrights. The judge ultimately ruled that its APIs weren’t copyrighted. The judge’s order recalls that “Oracle initially sought six billion dollars in damages and injunctive relief but recovered nothing after nearly two years of litigation and six weeks of trial.” His decision explains in stiff language why “Oracle has failed to overcome the presumption of awarding costs to Google.”
Oracle is appealing to get the whole $1.3 billion in damages a California jury awarded it last year in its copyright infringement case against rival SAP. SAP admitted that its third-party maintenance subsidiary TomorrowNow illegally downloaded scads of software from Oracle’s servers. The trial judge thought the award was “grossly” over the top and offered Oracle $272 million or a new trial. SAP offered Oracle $306 million to make the specter of another image-damaging trial go away. Oracle is appealing in hopes of seeing more money.
Previously, Oracle announced that it would stop developing new versions of its software on Itanium microprocessors. For example, that meant version 12c of the Oracle database due out in early 2013 would not be available on Itanium. However, a judge recently ruled that Oracle has a contract to continue porting its software to Itanium computers for as long as HP sells Itanium computers.
In case you missed it, Oracle has a ten million dollar challenge (here, here and here) to prove that their servers and database software technologies are 5 times faster than IBM.
Up to 10 winners open to U.S. Fortune 1000 companies running an Oracle 11g data warehouse on IBM Power system. Offer expires August 31, 2012 with configuration terms. See this URL for official rules: http://oracle.com/IBMchallenge
Click here to view entry form or click on form below.
Taking a step back for a moment, if you forgot or had not heard, Oracle earlier this summer had their hands slapped by the US Better Business Bureau (BBB) National Advertising Directive (NAD) over performance claims and ads. IBM complained to the BBB that unfair marketing claims about their servers and database products were being made by Oracle (read more here).
Not one to miss a beat or bit or byte of data, not to mention dollars, Oracle has run ads in newspapers and other venues for the Oracle IBM challenge with the winner receiving $10,000,000.00 USD (details here).
This begs the question, who wins, the company or entity that actually can standup and meet the challenge? How about Oracle, do they win if enough people see, hear, talk (or complain) about the ads and challenges? What about the cost, how will Oracle cover that or is it simply a drop in the bucket of an even larger amount of dollars potentially valued in the billions of dollars (e.g. servers, storage, software, services)?
Now for some fun, using an inflation calculator with 1974 dollars as that is when the TV show the six million dollar man made its debut. If you do not know, that is a TV show where an injured government employee (Steve Austin) played by actor Lee Majors was rebuilt using bionic in order to be faster and stronger with the then current technology (ok, TV technology). Using the inflation calculator, the 1974 six million dollar man and machine would cost about $27,882,839.76 in 2012 USD (364.7% increase).
Now using todays what Oracle is calling faster, stronger machine and associated staff for $10,000,000 challenge prize award, would have cost $2,151,861.17 in 1974 dollars. Note that the equal amount of compute processing, storage performance and capacity, networking capability and software abilities in 1974 similar to what is available today would have cost even more than what the inflation calculator shows. For that, we would need to have something like a technology inflation (or improvement) calculator.
Learn more about the Oracle challenge here, here and here, as well as the NAD announcement here, and the six million dollar man here
Ok, nuff said for now.
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The whisper numbers were worse but reality is bad enough. HP managed to squeeze out that buck-a-share it said it would when it warned about that horrendous $8 billion EDS non-cash write-off a couple of weeks ago. Coupled with weak PC results it lost $8.9 billion, or $4.49 a share, while revenues came in below estimates at $29.7 billion, down 5% year-over-year. Analysts thought it would at least do $30.1 billion.
EPractize Labs is the first company that offered software study book and practice mock questions for Oracle’s Java SE 7 Programmer II(1Z1-804, OCPJP 7) Exam to achieve Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 7 Programmer. The software guide has been released in the early stage of OCPJP 7 Beta exam. The product has been already reviewed by tons of exam takers and the current version of this exam simulator is 1.3. The good news from EPractize Labs is that they also offering Training Lab for Oracle’s Upgrade to Java SE 7 Programmer II(1Z0-805, OCPJP 7 Upgrade) Exam to achieve Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 7 Programmer Certification under upgrade path.
District Court Judge William Alsup hit Google upside the head Monday when he told the company that “in the court’s view, Google has failed to comply with the August 7 order” to disclose which bloggers and journalists it paid to write about the Java trial. Google and Oracle were supposed to turn in their separate lists last Friday. Oracle told the court it had a consulting relationship with FOSS Patents author Florian Mueller, a fact that was already well known. Google told the court that “Neither Google nor its counsel has paid an author, journalist, commentator or blogger to report or comment on any issues in this case. And neither Google nor its counsel has been involved in any quid pro quo in exchange for coverage of or articles about the issues in this case,” provoking the judge to retort that “The August 7 order was not limited to authors ‘paid…to report or comment’ or to ‘quid pro quo’ situations. Rather, the order was designed to bring to light authors whose statements about the issues in the case might have been influenced by the receipt of money from Google or Oracle.”
Google Ventures has put $8.2 million into electronic signatures vendor DocuSign, bringing the reportedly unprofitable start-up’s juicy $47.5 million D round, announced last month, up to an even juicier $55.7 million and its total funding up over a handsome $112 million. Google is reportedly supposed to help DocuSign lower the cost of customer acquisition and boost the quality of its sales leads by “making sure that organic search goes up and paid search goes down.”
In Part 1, we looked at the completed application, which we’ll start building here. Before we get started with actual development, let’s take a look at the starting application. Open a new browser tab or window with the starting application in JSFiddle. The starting app is as simple as it gets. First, take a look at the HTML code, then read the explanations below the code snippet. Let’s move on to the JavaScript code. While walking through the JavaScript code, we’ll see the power of messaging. One of the key differentiators that sets the Kaazing WebSocket Gateway apart from other WebSocket servers is its extensive support for rich business protocols and messaging APIs on top of the WebSocket standard, including XMPP, JMS, and AMQP. This tutorial focuses on the most widely used messaging API: Java Message Service (JMS).
"We started in the high-performance computing area and have been focusing on Big Data for a while,” stated Michael King, Director of Cloud Content & Media at DataDirect Networks, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City. Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
The latest skinny about Amazon has it assembling an IP team to acquire and license patents as part of its defense against the dark arts practiced by Google and Apple to protect their mobile devices and digital content. Reuters says the mighty retailer is looking for someone who can “identify and evaluate strategic IP acquisition and licensing opportunities” and work with Amazon’s technology teams on future products. It’s already got former RealNetworks general counsel Kelly Jo MacArthur as its VP of IP acquisitions and investments and Matt Gordon out of Intellectual Ventures as general manager of patent acquisitions and investments. Anyway, it’s reportedly got Argos Search working on it.
VMware has struck again. After buying Nicira for $1.26 billion two weeks ago in a threat to Cisco’s networking hegemony, it’s now bought Pattern Insight’s Log Insight analytics and log management platform, team and technology on undisclosed terms. The widgetry can analyze web-scale amounts of machine-generated data in real time and is used for operational analytics in traditional data center and cloud environments.
In this CTO Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, Vineet Tyagi; Head of Impetus Labs at Impetus Technologies; Darryl Brown, CMO at Appcore; Govind Rangasamy, Director of Product Management at Eucalyptus Systems; Frank Martinez, CTO of ServiceMesh; Wayne Ariola, VP of Strategy and Corporate Development at Parasoft; Bob Wicklund, Enterprise Solution Architect for McAfee Cloud and Content Security; and Ken Guiberson, CTO at EffectiveUI discussed such topics as which do you think is the most important cloud computing standard still to tackle and who should and shouldn’t be using a PaaS product today, and why?
First thing Thursday morning a desperate, financially struggling Nokia said it was selling off Qt, the commercial and open source cross-platform development platform it acquired when it bought Trolltech in 2008 for upwards of $150 million. Actually the news came from Digia, the publicly owned Finnish software house that’s taking Qt off Nokia’s hands. It picked up the Qt (say cute) licensing business from Nokia last year and now it’s getting the technology and developers. Terms were not disclosed but it’s assumed Digia is paying nowhere near the $150 million originally spent on Trolltech to defend its own operating systems against the iPhone.
Oracle Java SE 7 Programmer certifications gear up your knowledge in latest API /JSR changes and improves your career potential. The Java SE 7 Programmer (OCAJP & OCPJP) is a professional certification program offered by Oracle. These certifications tests candidates program knowledge Java SE at lighter (in OCA) and deeper (in OCP) levels. The OCA Java 7 is an entry level certification in Java. It helps the programmer who can have the basic knowledge of the essentials of the Java programming language. To handle the looping constructs and variables, and does not cover specific technologies such as GUI creation, Web or network programming. This certification exam tests how well a programmer has understood the language constructs and verify skillset in Java technologies.
Network management is important to cloud computing success. Software defined networks and data center fabrics all help in helping manage cloud initiatives better. Acquisitions in the cloud computing space have been picking up recently as technology companies look to offer end-to-end solutions. It also shows that for large companies, innovation through acquisition is becoming more popular as a way to adapt to changing technology trends. Cloud acquisitions typically fall into the Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) category. Oracle has been a voracious cloud acquirer with a number of SaaS acquisitions like RightNow, Taleo and Vitrue. SAP has also been adding to their SaaS portfolio with purchases of Ariba and SuccessFactors. IBM, which typically claims that it is not in the “application” space, has been adding to its SaaS portfolio with business analytics solutions like DemandTec and Emptoris. SaaS solutions are a great way to open cloud markets to large technology companies as the subscription model allows a low entry point for new customers.
Some testers dismiss the GUI driven approach as being too limited for complicated behaviors. Old school testers insist on only utilizing program-based scripts because past experience has led them to think that this is the most flexible or the only choice for handling complicated behaviors. All too often, the perception is that GUI driven scripts limit the level of customizations possible to emulate a real user. This opinion is likely based on experiences with rudimentary GUI tools on the market that are too basic and limited in their capabilities such as handling dynamic content and varying the transactions flows. However, there is a new breed in load testing solutions, designed and built to handle the most complex advanced scenarios. These are true enterprise-class solutions which provide a hybrid approach by containing both GUI and programming features. The power behind this hybrid approach enables the user to emulate even the most complex behavior but it also includes time saving features which can only be offered by a GUI solution.
This tutorial series walks you through the simple steps of building an HTML5 WebSocket app, demonstrating the power of the publish/subscribe development pattern directly in JavaScript. Our sample is almost as simple as a Chat app, the “Hello World” app of the WebSocket world, but is a tad more visual and dynamic. After trying out the completed application, you can either jump in the code and play with it right away, or move on to Part 2 (coming soon) of this tutorial for a step-by-step guide. About the Environment This tutorial requires a WebSocket server. We will use http://tutorial.kaazing.com, which hosts the JMS Edition of Kaazing WebSocket Gateway, Kaazing’s high-performance enterprise-grade WebSocket Server. All you’ll need to do is create a WebSocket connection to this server directly from your browser and start “talking” (read: send messages) to it from your browser. On the client side, you can use any modern browser, supported by JSFiddle (learn more about JSFiddle).
In an odd turn of events, Oracle and Google have been ordered to disclose the names of any journalists, commentators and bloggers they paid to influence public opinion on the high-profile Android Java trial that Oracle wound up losing. District Court Judge William Alsup, who presided over Oracle’s patent and copyright suit against Google, wrote in his one-page order Tuesday that: “The Court is concerned that the parties and/or counsel herein may have retained or paid print or Internet authors, journalists, commentators or bloggers who have and/or may publish comments on the issues in this case. Although proceedings in this matter are almost over, they are not fully over yet and, in any event, the disclosure required by this order would be of use on appeal or on any remand to make clear whether any treatise, article, commentary or analysis on the issues posed by this case are possibly influenced by financial relationships to the parties or counsel. Therefore, each side and its counsel shall file a statement herein clear identifying all authors, journalists, commentators or bloggers who have reported or commented on any issues in this case and who have received money (other than normal subscription fees) from the party or its counsel during the pendency of this action.”
BMC just bought Varalogix, a two-year-old self-funded start-up and near neighbor located in Austin, Texas, where BMC has acquired a couple of other DevOps companies in the last couple of years that mesh with its latest prize. Varalogix and its purpose-built VaraLogix Q widgetry does automated application deployment and configuration management for Java and .NET applications and just about everything they might need (think plug-ins) ‘cause it’s got “application awareness” ensuring that the app’s dependencies are covered.
As systems administrators, application logs are often the key to our success, but also our biggest hassle. They provide clues to what’s going on when things go awry, and in those situations more detail is generally better. But when you don’t actually know something is wrong, and just want to get a sense for whether things are normal, more detail can create so much noise that it’s all but impossible to glean any useful information. In those situations, you’d rather just have statistical information about what’s in your logs. In this article, I present a simple and easy solution to turn your logs into useful graphs, in real time. If you ever need to measure the volume of your logs, or perhaps graph the frequency of certain log events, then read on.
Oracle has managed to squeeze a few more bucks out of SAP for its admitted copyright infringement a few years ago. Oracle won a handsome $1.3 billion from a jury in 2010, but the judge thought that was over the top and cut it down to $272 million. Instead Oracle opted for a new trial, which was scheduled to start August 27. However, last Thursday – “to save the time and expense of this new trial” – the pair came to a settlement agreement that guarantees Oracle $306 million in damages plus attorneys’ fees or at least $426 million while it goes off and appeals to try to get the whole $1.3 billion. The deal would have to be approved by the federal judge who cut the award. SAP doesn’t have to pay anything until after all appeals or new trials are over. If Oracle ultimately wins less than $306 million, SAP is supposed to make up the difference.
Java architect certification training lab is an interactive learning and assessment material for OCMJEA (formerly SCEA) certification, developed and published by EPractize Labs. The exam kit provides enough study notes and practice questions with brief explanations for the certification preparation. This Training Lab is bundled with set of mock exam questions and review slides to gear up self preparation. It is developed by experienced Java experts with review tips, real-world program examples, and challenging practice exams that systematically prepare you for the actual exam.
As part of its bankruptcy proceedings, Eastman Kodak has put 1,100 patents on the block. They are expected to be sold at auction on August 8. There was reportedly a Monday deadline for initial bids according to what “people familiar with the matter” told the Wall Street Journal. Apple, teamed with Microsoft and Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures, and Google in company with RPX, Samsung, LG and HTC are believed to be after them for protection. Apple and Google were on opposite sides in the great Nortel patent auction last year and Apple and Microsoft et al walked off with the IP for $4.5 billion, a victory the inflated the expectations of patent holders everywhere.