Google's Android mess with Oracle's Java business
Google's Android mess with Oracle's Java business Google’s free distribution of Android damaged Oracle’s business – according to Oracle. The database giant reportedly told a US federal court that giving Android to handset makers for free destroyed the revenue it could have made on licensing Java. Oracle's co-chief executive Safra Catz reportedly told a San Francisco jury hearing the firm's suit against Google that this had had “a very negative impact.” Catz claimed Samsung cut its Java royalty payment from “about” $40m to $1m. She also claimed Oracle had offered Jeff Bezos’ Amazon a 97.5 per cent discount to use Java for its Paperwhite e-reader after Amazon switched from Java, which it had used on Kindle, to Android for its Fire device. According to Catz, Oracle tried, and abandoned, development of its own phone project.