Just the other day, we were considering what impact on enterprises the dust-up between Google and Oracle may have. In case, you’ve been trapped under a rock for the past couple of weeks, Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google claiming that it inappropriately modified aspects of the Java code. Now, Google—considered by many to be extremely friendly to open source, especially among large tech companies—has pledged to pull out of the big Java One conference, which tends to have news full of relevance for enterprises and smaller businesses alike. Meanwhile, some observers are claiming that Google may indeed be in the wrong in the case.  But isn’t Oracle pushing a questionable agenda?

We live in a technology world that is full of patents, and Oracle inherited some valuable patents when it acquired Sun Microsystems. ZDNet, among others, has already gone on record saying that Oracle may be correct that Google inappropriately modified parts of Java: