Well Oracle’s Larry Ellison will probably go to bed with a smile dreaming of new worlds to conquer now that his company’s aquistion of Sun and the resulting ownership of Java seems to have paid off. and in effect moves Oracle higher up the emerging mobile platform food chain at least on the Android side of things. This other shoe falling explains the previous settlement offer Google made to Oracle a while back which was promptly refused thus leading to this round of contentious litigation. So where to from here? Google stocks are already starting to react to this news. My question is what else has been built on the back of Java that will come under Oracle’s thumb?
Addendum: Turns out its actually a partial verdict or victory with “fair use” issues still to be completely defined, considered and decided. = No billion dollars for you.
More to Come…