Sun Microsystems Inc.

Andreas Bechtolsheim, the first investor in Google, has an estimated $16 billion fortune. He recently settled charges that he engaged in insider trading for a profit of $415,726.

The 6-to-2 ruling ended a decade-long battle over whether Google had improperly used Java code in its Android operating system.

The software giant Oracle says the search giant Google infringed on its copyrights. That brought Google’s boss to the courtroom Thursday morning.

The Java programming language was one of the most important tools of the late-1990s dot-com boom. Now it is the key to a court fight between tech giants.

The battle between Vinod Khosla, a venture capitalist, and California’s State Lands Commission has fanned debate over public and private land use.

The opening keynote at Oracle’s annual conference will be about its“unique opportunity to be the leader of the next generation of cloud,” according to Mark Hurd, the new co-chief.

Hewlett-Packard didn’t pay all that much for Eucalyptus, a maker of open source cloud computing software. But the deal said H.P. is willing to mess with its existing business lines.

Maverick McNealy, a sophomore at Stanford, makes his United States Open debut with his father, Scott, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, employed as his caddie.

Most in the tech industry know how Apple and Microsoft owe (at least) inspiration to the famed research laboratory. Not many know that Sun, once one of the most influential companies in tech, also learned a few things from PARC.

The billionaire investor Vinod Khosla is raising $1.05 billion for his venture capital firm Khosla Ventures, according to filing on Thursday.