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Installing the latest version of Open Office (3.3.0) may, if you're not careful, install an old, vulnerable, buggy version of Java.

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison has hit back at Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) and its CEO, Marc Benioff. It's the latest salvo in the war of words between the companies, following Benioff's public criticisms of Oracle, Oracle's last-minute move of Benioff's keynote to the 8am conference graveyard, and Benioff's pirate keynote in an adjacent hotel. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers can't wait for the next episode. Not to mention: A stunning, monochromatic tribute to the late, great Steve Jobs...

And, the future of Java lies in the balance.

An Apple note tells us it has "deprecated" Java in OS X. This means the Java runtime environment included within Mac OS X will not be maintained to the level it has been, and that it "may be removed from future versions of Mac OS X", the company warns. In Apple's new world order, it seems veteran Web standards are being shown the door...

Microsoft just offered more evidence that bad guys are exploiting known bugs in old versions of Java. Anyone not able to keep Java regularly patched (i.e. anyone who thinks of it as a type of coffee) probably shouldn't have it on their computer.

Do you need Java? Is the hassle of having to update yet another piece of software worthwhile? A look at the pros and cons.

There's been a tectonic shift in open source land, as IBM throws its weight behind Oracle's OpenJDK and its Java Community Process. It's backing away from the Apache Software Foundation's Harmony project, which sought to build an open-source Java SE, independent from Sun/Oracle. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder these strange bedfellows. Not to mention crowdsourced "facts"...
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But, in partnering with Oracle on OpenJDK, IBM is leaving Apache's Project Harmony out in the cold.

Some people have been asking me how Oracle could attack open source in its Google lawsuit. My answer: Easily. Here's why.

Oracle's suit against Google has one clear winner: Microsoft. With Google's Android tied up in litigation, and Oracle becoming the latest villain in the open source community, Microsoft has a chance to make inroads in the mobile market and elsewhere.

All of Java's developers and the companies that use the language and its frameworks should be worried sick.

Please proceed into Android hell. After yesterday's shock lawsuit from Oracle's accusation of Google lifting its Java technology for Android, comes some deeper analysis. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ask why Oracle thinks its patents and copyrights have been infringed. Not to mention Fake Steve and Fake Larry on (real) Mark Hurd...
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For the most part, a long, slow death.

The Firefox Plugin Check incorrectly reports old versions of Java as up-to-date.

In today's podcast: James Gosling, Java creator, quits Oracle; Adobe execs tells Apple to perform an anatomically impossible act; Ikea imposters scam 40,000 Facebook users.