CEO Jonathan Schwartz

The feeling was that the computer code being dealt with was basically a functional ... statements that ex-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz made congratulating Google on Android's launch. Some jurors believed Google relied on that blog post by Schwartz ...  

Oracle has asked a judge to bar Google from using some testimony given by former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz in the companies' intellectual-property suit over the Android mobile OS, saying it has "no legal and factual predicate."  

Oracle may have run into an obstacle in its lawsuit against Google during testimony by former CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Despite Oracle's own CEO Larry Ellison being unsure if Java was free to use for Android's framework, Schwartz said the programming interfaces were always cleared for free use and weren't proprietary. Sun didn't sue Google over its early Android use as it didn't feel it "had any grounds" to take action, he testified....  

Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy, an off-again-on-again buddy of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, testified for Oracle Thursday in its infringement suit against Google and Android. His surprise appearance – in the middle of Google’s laying out its copyright defense – was used to scotch testimony given minutes before by his pony-tailed successor at Sun Jonathan Schwartz who testified for Google. (It’s just so utterly Sun.) As in all jury trials the...  

The presentations of evidence in the Oracle v. Google copyright case wrapped up on Friday, and only a few hours of closing arguments now stand between the jury and their deliberations. The beginning of the week was dominated by Google's defense case, with more star witnesses, including two former CEOs of Sun Microsystems: Eric Schmidt, who later became CEO of Google, and Jonathan Schwartz. Schwartz testified...  

Law360, Chicago (May 15, 2012, 2:18 PM ET) -- Two whistleblowers whose False Claims Act and kickback suit against Oracle Corp. unit Sun Microsystems Inc. ended in a $46 million settlement with the federal government told an Arkansas federal court Monday ...  

Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy backed Oracle's contention that a license to use Java APIs was required, while Sun's last CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, testified that Google didn't need a license and was doing nothing wrong by using it to build Android. - Clashing testimony by two former Sun Microsystems CEOs highlighted Day 9 of the Oracle v. Google copyright lawsuit at San Francisco's federal courthouse on April 26. Sun co-founder...  

Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems Inc., talks about Oracle Corp.'s case against Google Inc. alleging copyright infringement over the use of the Java programming language for Android software. Oracle, the largest maker of database software acquired Java when it bought Sun in 2010. McNealy speaks with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." - Bloomberg TV  

"Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz took the stand here today as a witness for the defense, and disputed Oracle's claim that Java APIs were proprietary code from Sun. Google's lawyer, Robert van Nest, asked Schwartz whether, during his tenure at Sun, Java APIs were considered proprietary or protected by Sun. 'No,' Schwartz said in explaining the nature of open software, 'These are open APIs, and we wanted to bring in more people... We wanted to...  

In what might be one of the most anticipated appearances of the Oracle-Google trial thus far, former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz testified on behalf of Google at the US District Court on Thursday morning. Schwartz served as chief executive ...  

Furthermore, once again playing a major role in this trial, Jacobs recalled the November 2007 blog post by former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, congratulating Google for the debut of Android. Nevertheless, Jacobs asserted that Schwartz’s praise ...  

Jonathan Schwartz, who was president of Sun while McNealy was CEO and who served as CEO himself for the company’s final four years, told presiding Judge William Alsup and the 12-person jury that because Java is open-source IT, Google didn’t need to buy ...  

Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt testified that his company developed the Android operating system using the Java programming language after partnership talks with Sun Microsystems Inc. fell through and Sun made no demand for a license to use Java.  

The software maker tries to use the testimony of Sun co-founder Scott McNealy to essentially nullify everything said by former CEO Jonathan Schwartz earlier in the day.  

Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Java inventor James Gosling side with Google in its court battle with Oracle, while Sun's co-founder Scott McNealy takes Oracle's side. Who is right? Originally posted at News - Mobile