17-05-2016 19:15 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Oracle co-CEO says Google caused Oracle revenue to plummet

By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Longtime customers dramatically reduced the amount of licensing revenue they paid to use Oracle products after Google stole its copyrighted software to enter the smartphone market, Oracle's co-chief executive Safra Catz told jurors on Tuesday. In a trial at San Francisco federal court, Oracle Corp has claimed Google's Android smartphone operating system violated its copyright on parts of Java, a development platform. Alphabet Inc's Google unit said it shou
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