Cloud Computing Weekly Digest: May 27, 2016

by Joe Kinsella

The big news this week comes from the federal courthouse in San Francisco. The Java programming language — which at 21 years old this month can now legally drink — has been in the spotlight as a federal jury deliberated on whether Google violated copyright law by using it in Android. The future of the Java platform, which is directly and indirectly used pervasively across the cloud and non-cloud worlds, has been in doubt since Oracle acquired Sun in 2010. But the verdict in this case is back: Google did not violate Java’s copyright. This is good news for Men, Elves and Dwarves (developers), and bad news for the Dark Lord (Larry Ellison), who fashioned (acquired) the One Ring (Java) in Mount Doom (Santa Clara) in hope of enslaving them. My advice to Java: celebrate with your first legal drink. But don’t take Google with you — after all, they’re only 17.

Let’s get started with the week in review.