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• Oracle silent on Java independence initiative

  While Java founder James Gosling has campaigned for Oracle to place Java under the jurisdiction of an independent foundation, Oracle is declining to comment at all on the notion.

• Java garbage collection issue makes the rounds

  Tackling memory limitations imposed on Java applications, Terracotta on Tuesday will offer what it describes as a breakthrough in solving the "universal problem" of Java garbage collection.

• Intel upgrades parallel development suite

  Intel will release on Thursday an upgrade to its parallel development toolset for Windows application developers, adding both a tool to walk developers through parallelism, as well as support for Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 IDE.

• Google technologist derides Oracle's lack of developer focus

  When it bowed out of the JavaOne conference this year, Google cited Oracle's lawsuit over Java use in Google Android. But one Google technologist suggests a second possible reason for Google's reticence: Oracle's lack of focus on developers.

• Oracle lawsuit unlikely to prompt Java forking

  Oracle's lawsuit against Google over Java patents could alienate some people in the Java space, but the litigation is not likely to prompt a forking of the Java platform itself, the founder of the popular Spring Framework for Java development said on Wednesday.

• Google bows out of JavaOne due to lawsuit

  Due to its dispute with Oracle, Google said it will not present at the JavaOne conference this year.

• Gosling: Oracle could still live up to 2007 Java pledge

  There is still a way for Oracle to calm down people concerned about the fate of the Java programming language under the vendor's stewardship, according to James Gosling, known as the "father" of Java.

• OutSystems offers agile development for the cloud

  OutSystems is offering a cloud-based version of its agile development platform for building Web applications.

• Java founder derides Oracle's lawsuit against Google

  Java founder James Gosling has weighed in on Oracle's lawsuit against Google over Android's use of Java, saying the unsurprising litigation was about ego, money, and power.

• Google calls Oracle lawsuit 'baseless,' vows to fight it

  Google will put up a fight in response to the patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit that Oracle filed over the use of Java in the Android mobile phone platform.

• Oracle sues Google over Java use in Android

  Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, charging that its Android phone software infringes Oracle patents and copyrights related to Java, Oracle said on Thursday.

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  Tax office goes Ubuntu for AUSkey Linux standard

  The Australian Taxation Office is preparing to release a Linux port of its AUSkey authentication software with Ubuntu being the reference distribution for testing and development.

• Oracle data grid scales .NET to new heights

  A new version of Oracle's data grid software will allow Microsoft .NET applications to scale to the same large multi-server environments long enjoyed by Java enterprise applications, according to Oracle.

• Nokia boosts Java development for Symbian 3 phones

  Nokia, with the Mobile Runtime for Java Applications (JRT), is enabling development of Java applications for Symbian 3 devices, Nokia officials said Thursday.

• Gosling: Oracle gets server-side Java, but confused about desktops, cell phones

  James Gosling, the key developer of the Java platform while he was at now-defunct Sun Microsystems, said Tuesday that Oracle, which bought Sun earlier this year, has an excellent understanding of the server-side Java but is confused about what to do with Java on desktops and cell phones.