Sun, Eastman Kodak settle high-stakes dispute over Java
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Sun Microsystems Inc. will pay Eastman Kodak Co. $92 million to license patents originally filed by Wang Laboratories, a former minicomputer maker in Lowell.
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Sun Microsystems is looking to make life easier for Java developers by seeking a common ground on a data persistence model.
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Eastman Kodak Co. EK.N on Wednesday  said it will take full control of Kodak Polychrome Graphics, a  maker of commercial graphics films and plates, by buying Sun  Chemical Corp.'s 50 percent stake in the joint venture for  about $817 million over several years.
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Eastman Kodak Co. EK.N on Wednesday  said it will take full control of Kodak Polychrome Graphics, a  maker of photographic films and plates, by buying Sun Chemical  Corp.'s 50 percent stake in the joint venture for about $817  million over several years.
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EASTMAN Kodak is expecting a payout of more than $US1 billion this week after winning a patent lawsuit against Sun Microsystems. A jury found Sun&#39;s popular Java software infringed several patents Eastman Kodak bought from Wang Laboratories in late 1997.
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Sun will pay Kodak $92 million and will receive in exchange a license under all Kodak patents for the benefit of the Java technology and under the patents in the lawsuit for any and all purposes.
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Ziff Davis - Sun Microsystems is rolling out its newest Java Enterprise System release, along with five market-driven subsets aimed at solving specific business problems.
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Eastman Kodak Co. and International Business Machines Corp. Thursday said they have agreed to develop and make image sensors for digital still cameras and camera phones.
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Sun Microsystems faces the possibility of having to pay more than US$1 billion in damages now that a federal court jury has found the computer giant&#39;s popular Java languages infringed on a patent held by Eastman Kodak.
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MANHASSET, NY - Sun Microsystems has reached an out-of-court settlement with Eastman Kodak Co. in a two-year patent dispute over its Java programming language, agreeing to pay the imaging products company
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(InfoWorld) - Apparently it's not enough that Sun peppers any and all discussions of its hardware and software products with liberal mentions of its Java programming language, now the vendor wants Wall Street to sit up and take more note of its homegrown technology too. As of Monday, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s ticker on the Nasdaq stock exchange will be Java, as the vendor turns its back on the SUNW ticker, which has served the company since it went public in 1986. Sun announced the upcoming change on Thursday. Sun had its origins on the Stanford campus where three of the California university's graduate students Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, and Scott McNealy, along with Berkeley graduate Bill Joy, came together to found the company in 1982. The name Sun originally stood for Stanford University Network, while the W indicated Sun's first products: workstations. In a Thursday posting on his blog, Sun president and CEO Jonathan Schwartz heralded the ticker change as recognizing that the Java brand is much better known than Sun, the company behind it. "The number of people who know Java swamps the number of people who know Sun," he wrote, pointing to the technology's ubiquity as it's present in most of today's PCs, mobile devices and embedded systems. While the SUNW symbol is well known in the financial community, it represents "nostalgic value" and "the past," according to Schwartz. By contrast, the Java brand is "inseparably a part of Sun (and our profitability)," he added. Schwartz was careful to state that the ticker name change wasn't indicative of any change in strategy for Sun, which will continue to offer a mix of products. "But we are no longer simply a workstation company, nor a company whose products can be limited by one category -- and Java does a better job of capturing exactly that sentiment than any other four letter symbol," he wrote. "Java means limitless opportunity -- for our software, systems, storage, service and microelectronics businesses." Initial reactions to Sun's ticker change were mostly unfavorable -- "a terrible idea," "a waste of money," "a stupid move," "a joke," and "worst idea ever," according to most of the comments appended to Schwartz's blog. Commentators saw the Java ticker as limiting, not expressive of Sun's overall product portfolio and also very much yesterday's technology. While Java has been widely adopted, its ubiquity and its 12 years in the market add up to a dated technology, they wrote. Sun began work on what later became Java in 1991 as a project code-named "Oak" initially for use in set-top boxes. The company then re-evaluated the work it had done and repurposed the effort as a new programming language with the mantra of "Write once, run anywhere." In other words, developers could create a program in Java and then have it run without alternation on a wide variety of hardware platforms. Sun unveiled Java in 1995, and, after some initial hiccups, the vendor saw widespread adoption of the language by developers working at all different sizes of companies from very large enterprises to small embedded systems startups. After committing to open-source Java in May 2006,Â Sun finally began making Java freely available in NovemberÂ under both its own open source license, CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License), and the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2). The move is in line with Sun's promise to eventually make more of its software available as open source technologies.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. said it agreed to pay $92 million to Eastman Kodak Co. to settle a patent-infringement lawsuit over Sun&#39;s Java programming language.
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ROCHESTER, NY - Eastman Kodak Co. accepted a $92 million payout by Sun Microsystems Inc. to settle a $1 billion patent-infringement lawsuit over the Silicon Valley company&#39;s Java programming language.
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Eastman Kodak Co. and International Business Machines Corp. said Thursday they have agreed to develop and make image sensors for digital still cameras and camera phones.
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ROCHESTER, NY Eastman Kodak has reached an out-of-court settlement with Sun Microsystems over the damage phase of Kodak&#39;s successful lawsuit regarding Sun&#39;s Java computer programming language.
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NEW YORK (AFX)--Eastman Kodak Tuesday said it agreed to buy the imaging business of National Semiconductor for undisclosed terms. The business develops and makes metal oxide semiconductor image sensor devices.
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Eastman Kodak&#39;s patent-infringement lawsuit against Sun Microsystems now moves into the penalty phase, as the jury considers whether to award Kodak as much as $1 billion in damages.