We often talk about current rivalries like Google vs. Apple vs. Microsoft, but these pale next to some of the wars that have gone back decades. Granted the Sun vs. IBM war is long over and—surprisingly—IBM won. In fact, IBM […]
IBM Goes to War with Oracle: IT Customers Praise Result Read More »
APIs are the glue that connects the online world. The battle between Oracle and Google over the use of Java APIs in Android threatened to make using APIs to leverage applications and services a much more complex and possibly cumbersome
Developers Can Rejoice In Google Victory Against Oracle Read More »
Mary Ann Davidson’s post chastising Oracle customers for checking the company’s code for vulnerabilities created nothing less than a surge in security industry chatter this week. I’m not necessarily writing to analyze that chatter or further dissect Davidson’s comments, however
But, I’m not a security person Read More »
Oracle issued a gargantuan security update that fixes 25 separate security flaws in Java, including one zero-day that has been actively exploited in the wild. Unless there is some sort of absolute business imperative that requires your use of Java
Put a fork in it, Java is done Read More »
