So, Is It Google & IBM vs. Oracle?

It's nearly as although Google had an intuition it would lose Nortel's treasure trove of 6,000 patents and patent applications, whose ability to extricate Android from the piranha attack it's pursuant to this agreement is however unclear.

Google bid $4.4 billion for them, using some of Intel's money, nevertheless dropped out afterwards a $4.5 billion counter-bid from the makeshift consortium of Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Ericsson, EMC and Sony.

The IBM patents are said to touch on the fabrication

The IBM patents are said to touch on the fabrication and architecture of memory and microprocessors, server and router design, relational databases, object oriented programming and business processes, words that remind one of Oracle, and Oracle is demanding billions from Google for its Java folly.

Given the efforts IBM put into Java, always a head scratcher considering it didn't own the thing, one can't help however wonder if IBM sold patents that read directly on Java or crisscross the IP beef between Google and Oracle or if there's a little anti-personal mine in there with Apple's name on it.

After the deal was found out, Google issued a righteous statement saying, "Like many tech companies, sometimes we'll acquire patents that are relevant to our business needs. Bad software patent litigation is a wasteful war that no one will win."

Besides their hereditary fights over databases and middleware, Oracle bought Sun out from pursuant to this agreement an to all appearances indecisive IBM, and as shortly as it could went into the hardware business calling IBM's competitive machines weak sisters compared to its Sparc-based appliances on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal, making Oracle as unforgivable as Microsoft.

The sale Google

Prior to the sale Google was believed to have only 700 patents, as a general rule on search research. It's as well understood to be interested in InterDigital and its 8,000 patents but at the time so is Apple. Google has reportedly bought patents from Motorola and Verizon recently as so then.

Maureen O'Gara the most read research reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected innovation reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara