2010 has sure been an extremely successful year for acquisitions. Almost every tech-giant out there was on an acquisition spree, Google topping the chart.

OpenJDK will make this port Open-Source to the public. It can work wonders with both Apple and Oracle supporting this move. While Apple is offering the Java SE 6, Oracle is at Java SE 7.

Google points out that the Dalvik VM is a part of Android that was manufactured by the OHA (Open Handset Allianace). It has nothing (or negligible traces) to do with the Dalvik VM code.

Oracle and Apple have announced that they will be working on OpenJDK which will bring Java SE 7 to Mac OS X

With the killing of OpenOffice.org to the recent lawsuit against Google’s use of Java in the Dalvik VM, Oracle has done enough to raise an outcry form ASF.

Oracle is playing a dirty game here as it knows that the API libraries that Android uses forms a decisive part (1/3rd) of it’s code and that Google has no other option but to comply.

Oracle has asked the founders of The Documents Foundation to leave the OpenOffice.org Council due to “conflict of interest”.

Sun forgot to manage their income source and invest in some finance improvement. End result: Sun came plumetting down and Oracle took the opportunity in buying it.

HP and Oracle who had a bitter public showoff when HP filed a lawsuit against former CEO Mark Hurd when he joined Oracle have decided to bury the hatchet and continue with their partnership.

HP Sued Mark Hurd for joining Oracle for trade secrets. Oracle responds back and says it will be difficult doing business with HP because of the lawsuit.

Ousted HP CEO, Mark Hurd, may join Oracle soon.

Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems to monetize Java but failed to understand the community process and has sued Google over use of Java in Android scaring other businesses based on Java.

In a leaked internal email sent to OpenSolaris development team, Oracle has said that they have discontinued the OpenSolaris Project.

Oracle has sued Google over the use of Java in Android. It claims that Google infringed 7 patents owned by Oracle related to Java’s IP.

According to a developer survey conducted by Jaspersoft, Java and MySQL has not been affected much by Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems. In fact, they are doing quite well under Oracle.