Originally Posted By: DWallach
It's always difficult to predict the future on these things, but here's my ten cent guess:

Oracle may well hold one or more patents which read on Google's Android phones. Google, without a doubt, holds a stack of patents which read on Oracle's database products. I'm reasonably confident that neither company is interested in lawsuit armageddon, so a cross-licensing agreement seems obvious. I wouldn't even be surprised if this lawsuit represents a breakdown in prior talks along exactly these lines.

Cooler heads will inevitably prevail and life will more on.


My bet would be that Oracle, being around much longer than Google, has a way bigger stack of patents that could effect Google's daily operations.