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Developers Unhappy Over Oracle Android Suit Made Global Headline

The infoWorld interview for Android had made global headlines, much bigger than I thought. As of Saturday night, it has been used by 200+ websites, including news site, financial sites, legal, tech, and many more. Hope this draw more suppor to android communith.

It also made to the top at all the search engines:

No.1 item if you search google for “Oracle Android”,

No.1 in Bing search for Oracle Anroidd

No. 3 in Yahoo

Here are some sites who used this news:

  • Devx.comt

  • Reuters

  • Tweetmeme.com

  • NetworkWorld

  • Developers unhappy over Oracle Android suit


    • August 22, 2010 Posted by | android, Silicon Valley Android Meetup | , | 2 Comments

    Developers unhappy over Oracle Android suit – interview by Infoworld

    I was interviewed by Paul Krill from InfoWorld at Wednesday. Here is the article by InfoWorld.

    Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over the Android mobile platform has upset some developers, even though the ultimate effect of the litigation remains to be seen.

    “The group is very, very unhappy,” with the lawsuit, says David Cao, an organizer of the Silicon Valley Android Developers group and a vice president at BeyondSoft Consulting. Oracle, he says, is alienating the open source community. But he believes “Android will prevail.”

    [ InfoWorld columnist Neil McAllister believes Oracle was right to sue over Androidbut InfoWorld Editor in Chief Eric Knorr disagrees. | Sharpen your Java knowledge and skills with InfoWorld's JavaWorld Enterprise Java newsletter. ]

    A leader in the Linux space echoed similar sentiments. “Oracle has significantly undermined its relationship with the open source and developer community,” says Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux distributor Canonical. “That may or may not have an immediate impact on its bottom line, but it’s going to present real challenges for the pace of adoption of key Oracle technologies like Java and MySQL, which have traditionally been led from the bottom up. Developers have been the drivers of adoption of open source platforms, and they will avoid platforms that look like patent traps.”

    Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google last week alleging that the Android mobile OS violates patents pertaining to the Java technology Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems early this year. Now, speculation runs rampant about the lawsuit’s possible impacts, if any, on Java, open source, software patents, and even to rival platforms, such as Microsoft’s neophyte Windows Phone 7. Android competitors, including Microsoft, might actually benefit from the suit, says IDC analyst Al Hilwa.

    Android developers stick up for Google
    Developers thus far are sticking by Android, says Cao, who described himself as a longtime Java developer before beginning work in Android in 2008. “I haven’t seen anybody move away from Android development because of this lawsuit,” he notes.

    “I strongly believe Android has great potential,” says Cao. He lauds Android for being open and powerful. Android is superior to the officially sanctioned Java Micro Edition for mobile development, and “Google actually helped the Java community at large in mobile development,” he says.

    However, Hilwa says that the suit could drive away devicemakers and developers, especially big ones like Motorola that base key products on Android. “Lawsuits like this could put the kibosh on Android adoption,” he says. That why Hilwa anticipates some kind of settlement, so Google can reassure its partners.

    http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/developers-unhappy-over-oracle-android-suit-608-1?source=rss_infoworld_news

    August 21, 2010 Posted by | android, Android News | , , | 1 Comment

    Meet with Jason Cooper from Google at 8-11 SV Android meetup

    Agenda for 8-11 SV Android meetup:

    6:30PM Introduction
    6:40PM Speaker and Presentations
    Jason Cooper, Google Developer Relationship
    Making Money and Tracking Usage: Google mobile APIs in action

    Andrew Kulikov, F5 Networks, Secure Mobile Remote Access with SSL VPN.
    Mobile device usage to access enterprise resources continue to grow, Enterprise administrators are requiring the use of VPN connections from mobile devices. A large number of VPN deployments are using SSLVPN for remote access to their enterprise networks, and these deployments require SSLVPN clients for mobile platforms. In this presentation we cover the challenges of developing an SSL VPN client, and demonstrate a working client on Android.

    Andrew joined F5 Networks in 2007. Areas of responsibilities include development and suport of client-side applications for Secure Remote Access (SSL VPN) for different platforms including Windows, Windows Mobile and Android.

    8PM Demo

    Dave Donnelly, recent graduate of the Android Developer’s Bootcamp and President of Lido Services Corp, will be presenting the application he is developing for his client, A Positive Thought. A Positive Thought has two products that have been available in gift stores and book shops for several years that they wanted to make available to smart phone users. The products consist of decks of cards containing positive affirmation messages. The first app, available today on the Android Market, is the beta release of the free version of “I Am…” – presenting messages such as I Am… optimistic, or I Am… inspired. Coming soon there will be an enhanced, paid version of “I Am…” and two additional apps (free and paid) representing A Positive Thought’s other product, “I Let Go…”
    Go to the Android Market and search for “I Am…” or
    market://details?id=com.lidosvcs.iam

    Sponsor by:
    InMobi

    http://www.happycorte…

    Happy Cortex is the spot for events de geek in the Bay Area. If you like the Discovery Channel, Scientific American, Battle Bots reruns, Mythbusters, dropping Mentos into Diet Coke, or noodling around with the Hodge Conjecture, you’re bound to find lots of interesting things to do in and around San Francisco, via Happy Cortex. We’re particularly geared toward finding things to do in the near future (today, tomorrow, next week), so if you suddenly find yourself with some time on your hands and want something extraordinary to do with it, Happy Cortex is the place. Better yet, subscribe (for FREEEEEE!) and you’ll get a weekly e-mail filling you in on all the geeky goodness coming your way in the next few days, plus special updates for any cool things that might pop up on short notice.

    -David

    August 12, 2010 Posted by | android | , , | Leave a Comment

    The China Prospect of Android by SVCWireless

    From http://www.svcwireless.org/svcw/events/314-thechinaprospectofandroid

    SVCWireless Mobile Application SIG cordially invite you to join us at this exciting event, “The China Prospect of Android – Meet with ZTEMT” on Thursday Aug 05, 2010. In this seminar, we will invite Dr. John Chen, Sr. VP/CTO, ZTE Mobile Telecommunication Ltd, to share his view of Android in China, and ZTEMT’s interest in Android.

    Dr. Chen has over 16 years of experiences in the wireless industry. He has been leading the development of various wireless products ranging from cellular phones, M2M modules, Fixed wireless terminals, Wireless data cards to some value-added services including ZTE Music. Currently he is also leading a large group of developers in ZTEMT over Android product development.

    ZTEMT’s Android products includes cellular Phones (CDMA, WCDMA), McPAD (running Android), and M2M modules supporting Android.

    Date and Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm Thursday Aug 05, 2010

    Venue: Access Growth, 2953 Bunker Hill Lane Ste.#400 Santa Clara, CA 95054

    Agenda:

    6:00pm to 6:30pm Registration and networking

    6:30pm to 8:00pm Keynote

    8:00pm to 9:00pm Open Discussion and Networking

    Registration (Required):

    https://www.123signup.com/register?id=mpbkf

    Admission:

    Free for all the participants.

    Capacity: 50

    Due to the limited capacity, we highly recommend participants to register as early as possible.

    Hosting Organization:

    Mobile SIG

    SVCWireless 2010 Program Team

    Silicon Valley China Wireless Technology Association

    Sponsor: BeyondSoft Consulting Inc.

    August 3, 2010 Posted by | android, Android China | , , , | Leave a Comment

       

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