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Google, HPE, Microsoft\u2014it\u2019s clear that Oracle is not everyone\u2019s friend, not even its own employees, who are suing them and being sued in return.
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Oracle keeps losing to Google<\/h2>\n

First, let\u2019s talk about the Oracle versus Google<\/strong> case. This litigation goes back to 2010, and it revolves around the Dalvik Virtual Machine<\/strong>, which managed Android\u2019s applications until the introduction of ART. In a nutshell, Oracle blamed Google for copying Java\u2019s functionality<\/strong> (developed by Sun Microsystems and purchased by Oracle in 2009) and borrowing 37 proprietary APIs.<\/p>\n

In 2012, during the first trial, the concept of API intellectual property was rejected. It took an appeal in 2014 for Oracle<\/strong> to go back and swing at Google again. That trial just ended, with Google coming out victorious in the major legal battle.<\/p>\n

Still, Oracle is not backing down, and it has promised to appeal that decision and is claiming more than $9.3 billion in damages from Google for borrowing its API Java technologies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Hewlett Packard Enterprise claimed $3 billion in damages from Oracle<\/h2>\n

HPE<\/strong> claims to have suffered great harm due to Oracle\u2019s decision to not support the Itanium processors. The company is now claiming compensation of $3 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

HPE may have changed its name since this case started in 2011, but it has not forgotten its grievances against Oracle, which is returning to court as a defendant and not as a plaintiff.<\/p>\n

Oracle was accused of using irregular accounting procedures by a former employee<\/h2>\n

Oracle is the target of legal proceedings by a former financial manager who claims to have been terminated after complaining about some accounting practices used for the company\u2019s cloud activity. Oracle\u2019s database<\/strong> specialist spokesperson has denied these allegations.<\/p>\n

We will have to wait and see what the outcome of this case is.<\/p>\n

It looks like Oracle is becoming comfortable in the halls of justice…<\/p>\n

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