NewsFactor – Oracle’s suit against Google for the use of Java in its Android portable operating system continues to reverberate through the open-source movement.

NewsFactor – Hewlett-Packard submitted a $2 billion offer for 3PAR on Friday morning, topping Dell’s latest $1.8 billion bid for the storage technology provider. Formed in 1999 by a group of server-cluster engineers from Sun Microsystems, 3PAR offers technologies that enable enterprises to service a wide range of applications concurrently from multiple on-premise servers, virtual cloud servers, or hybrid systems that combine on-premise and off-premise elements.

PC World – Back in January, the Amsterdam-based consultancy Software Improvement Group warned government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org until Oracle proved its commitment to treating the software as well–and with as much investment–as Sun Microsystems had.

PC World – Since leaving his post as CEO of Sun Microsystems in February, Jonathan Schwartz has been largely quiet, despite promises to keep people updated via Twitter and his blog. Now he’s turned up on the board of Taleo.

PC World – A Norwegian startup is assuming responsibility for maintaining an open source Web authentication technology originally developed by Sun Microsystems, and seemingly neglected by Oracle, which purchased Sun in January.