Beyond the development work and the hardware costs, Oracle licensing fees were well over what West was used to spending for SQL Server licenses. "All the licenses for SQL Server ran about $30,000 ...

The case is being closely watched by the software industry. ... Like Oracle with SQL, Google engineers wrote their own code, from scratch, that produced the same results as Sun's Java code.

The judge hearing Oracle’s Java patent lawsuit against Google hopes to get the case wrapped up before the end of November, he said Wednesday, but it won’t help his cause that the U.S. patent ...