Here’s how Android is becoming Microsoft’s next cash cow, after its Windows OS and Office businesses. Microsoft stands to make billions from its patent licensing arrangements with Android device manufacturers.

HP has sued Oracle in a California court over stopping development of Oracle on Itanium based platforms citing legal agreements and unfair practices.

Oracle has thrown out old Sun talent and some have left voluntarily. The big shot Gosling himself has joined Google and this earns Google some thumbs up, at least from people.

The Document Foundation welcomes Oracle’s decision to release the OpenOffice.org codes and wants to work with the Apache Foundation to co-develop office applications.

Oracle has announced that they are donating OpenOffice.org to the Apache Foundation.

At Google, James Gosling will find other familiar faces like Tim Bray, the co-inventor of XML who has worked at Google for over a year now.

MySQL.com database has been compromised by Blind SQL Injection. MySQL databases and tables leaked through a security breach carried out through an SQL Injection.

The domain is an extremely business specific domain, with a dictionary word and is short and authoritative. At the present scenario, the Sun domain is valued at nearly $2 million.

Even after such expertise and so many achievements, Sun Microsystems made one wrong business move after another after the dot com bubble bust.

Red Hat is right in its own place. This will prevent Oracle and Novell from providing RHEL support. However, in making this change, Red Hat is ignoring the fact that it just killed a number of developers and small businesses based around the Red Hat kernel releases.

“Android has used Java code, Android has infringed upon Java and Androids Dalvik virtual machine uses Java code” are claims from Oracle we have heard over the last few months.

Today, Canonical has finally replaced OpenOffice with LibreOffice in the daily build of Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narhwal”

Oracle goes to the cloud with their Online Office Suite.

Apache Software Foundation has resigned from the JCP Executive Board over Oracle’s decision to not give a TCK license to the Harmony Project.

The first beta of VirtualBox is out. Read what’s new!