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Google Vs. Oracle Supreme Court Ruling: 6 Big Things To Know In a 6-2 landmark Supreme Court ruling Monday, Justice Stephen Breyer said that Google’s use of the Java API code was “fair use.” Here’s a look at the high-stakes 11-year legal-battle between Oracle and Google that was centered on whether the Java APIs used by Google in its Android smartphone platform were copyright protected. By Steven Burke April 05, 2021, 04:49 PM EDT A Victory For Google T...

Google Bests Oracle In Java Lawsuit, A ‘Great Victory’ For Channel The Supreme Court Monday ruled 6-2 in favor of Google in a long running Java software code lawsuit with Oracle. By Steven Burke April 05, 2021, 12:09 PM EDT The Supreme Court Monday ruled 6-2 in favor of Google in a long running Java software code lawsuit with Oracle. The nation’s highest court overturned an earlier decision in the case in which Oracle was seeking a $9 billion pay-day in a...

6 New Microsoft Product Previews Launching In April Microsoft is debuting a range of product previews in April including new capabilities for Teams, Dynamics 365, Azure Active Directory and Viva. By Wade Tyler Millward April 01, 2021, 04:24 PM EDT New Microsoft Product Previews Microsoft is unveiling a slew of previews for new products and features this month that channel partners should know about. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant’s April releases include...

Informatica Offers Partners Faster Development Capabilities, Advanced Training At its Elevate partner conference this week the big data company also will debut a new consumption-based pricing model to help partners speed customers’ cloud migration projects. By Rick Whiting March 16, 2021, 09:31 AM EDT Informatica is launching several partner-focused initiatives that the cloud data management software developer says will help partners – especially systems in...

Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage ‘We understand how incredibly impactful and unacceptable this is and apologize deeply,’ Microsoft says in a post-incident review report on the outage. By Donna Goodison, Steven Burke March 16, 2021, 12:34 PM EDT Microsoft on Tuesday apologized for a worldwide outage that impacted Azure cloud services including Microsoft Teams, Office 365 and Dynamics 365. “We understand how incredibly imp...

Microsoft Grows Prototyping Capabilities With Acquisition Of The Marsden Group The acquisition should help improve Microsoft’s offerings to asset-intensive industries like manufacturing, automotive and logistics, Microsoft said. By Wade Tyler Millward March 16, 2021, 01:32 PM EDT Microsoft continues to invest in solutions aimed at industrial customers with the purchase of The Marsden Group, which provides rapid prototyping services. The acquisition should he...

Sherweb Executives On Bringing Cloud Services, Security To MSPs ‘We were lucky to have our huge base of MSP partners by being first to market with the advent of the public cloud. Now we’re making sure that we serve those MSPs well and that we add value in every way possible where we see a gap, where we see that it is possible for us to add value,’ says Matthew Cassar, co-founder and co-CEO of Sherweb. By Joseph F. Kovar March 15, 2021, 12:00 PM EDT Lookin...

Microsoft Teams Updates Add ‘Sorely Missing’ Features: Partners Updates such as enhanced webinar functionality and moderator controls, along with a number of integrations with other Microsoft products, should increase the usefulness of Teams for customers--ultimately helping to fuel services opportunities, solution providers told CRN. By Wade Tyler Millward March 11, 2021, 04:29 PM EST Solution providers applauded the latest updates announced for the Micros...

The French major will sell green electricity to the US software group.

ServiceNow Quebec release of its Now Platform offers new App Engine Studio for workflow development and AI and process automation capabilities.