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• Oracle-HP trial will trace an ill-fated partnership

  By Stephen Lawson | 01 June, 2012 20:57

  After Oracle and Hewlett-Packard enjoyed a long and fruitful partnership in enterprise IT, it's hard to find anything that hasn't gone wrong with their relationship over the past two years.

• Wall Street Beat: June starts slow but hope for tech in 2012 remains

  By Marc Ferranti | 01 June, 2012 19:09

  June is off to a rocky in the markets for technology companies as shares slump in the wake of troubling economic reports, though cooler heads appear to have confidence in the sector for the long term.

• Experts torn on Oracle's chances of appeal in Android copyright ruling

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 June, 2012 19:08

  Oracle has pledged to appeal a judge's ruling Thursday that Java APIs cited in its lawsuit against Google weren't subject to copyright protection, but legal scholars and attorneys not associated with the case expressed mixed opinions whether that would be successful.

• Livermore set to be first witness in HP-Oracle trial

  By Stephen Lawson | 01 June, 2012 02:04

  Ann Livermore, a member of Hewlett-Packard's board of directors and a longtime head of the company's enterprise business, will be the first witness called when a court in San Jose, California, hears HP's lawsuit against Oracle for ending future development on the Itanium platform.

• Judge clears Google of Java copyright infringement

  By James Niccolai and Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 21:25

  A U.S. judge has ruled that the Java application programming interfaces used in Android are not protected by copyright, marking a defeat for Oracle in its high-stakes lawsuit against Google.

• Ellison: Next version of Oracle database set for December or January release

  By Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 20:59

  The next version of Oracle's database will be released in either December or January, CEO Larry Ellison said during an onstage interview at the AllThingsD conference in London.

• Oracle ERP project woes force construction firm to delay financial filing

  By Chris Kanaracus | 31 May, 2012 18:33

  Problems with the rollout of an Oracle JD Edwards ERP (enterprise resource planning) system have forced a Pennsylvania construction company to delay the filing of its fiscal 2012 annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

• Oracle prepares to enter PaaS wars

  By Chris Kanaracus | 29 May, 2012 20:59

  Oracle may lay out how it plans to become a player in the burgeoning PaaS (platform as a service) market next week during a webcast event featuring CEO Larry Ellison and co-president Mark Hurd.

• Oracle NetBeans 7.2 supports the latest PHP, C++

  By Joab Jackson | 25 May, 2012 18:34

  The newest version of the Oracle NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment) will come with support for the latest versions of PHP and C++.

• Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

  By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

  During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

• Most jurors sided with Google on APIs and 'fair use'

  By James Niccolai | 23 May, 2012 23:34

  Most of the jurors in the Oracle v Google trial thought Google's use of 37 Java APIs in Android should be allowed under the doctrine of fair use, one of the jurors revealed Wednesday after the trial had ended.

• Google's Android did not infringe Oracle patents, jury finds

  By James Niccolai | 23 May, 2012 20:08

  Google's Android operating system does not infringe Oracle's Java patents, a jury in San Francisco found Wednesday in a setback for Oracle.

• Google's Android did not infringe Oracle patents, jury finds

  By James Niccolai | 23 May, 2012 18:29

  Google's Android operating system does not infringe Oracle's Java patents, a jury in San Francisco found Wednesday in a setback for Oracle.

• Oracle buys social relationship management company Vitrue

  By Joab Jackson | 23 May, 2012 15:20

  Taking a step into the social media marketing industry, Oracle is purchasing Vitrue, the two companies announced Wednesday.

• Microsoft-backed groups praise EU's antitrust ultimatum to Google

  By Gregg Keizer | 22 May, 2012 20:50

  A pair of Microsoft-backed industry groups applauded the ultimatum European Union antitrust regulators issued to rival Google over alleged anti-competitive practices.