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Oracle Promotes hypePod/hypeTunes Just Weeks After Suing Android, Java's Founder Has Message for Ellison

Leisure Suit Larry Ellison



Summary: Oracle is promoting Apple's products and Mister Java himself creates t-shirt designs to protest against Ellison's decision to sue Google with his own patents

WHEN Oracle announced that it was suing Google over Android we immediately (on the first day) pointed out that Ellison and Jobs are close friends [1, 2], which may give motivation for Oracle to sue and thus help hypePhone. Other people pointed this out later on and now there's evidence showing that Oracle is actively promoting Apple products:



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Real classy, Larry. For those who don't know, Larry Ellison appears in the film Iron Man 2. He is a real charlatan. Meanwhile we get to realise that Google gets proactively expelled (it withdrew for obvious reasons) from Oracle's Java events. We put citations in daily links. There are alternatives planned though and Java's founder has a stunt coming:



Steve Lohr over at the New York Times continues to watch this case, which is only a few weeks old [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].

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