James Gosling, the man behind Java at Sun Microsystems, announced this morning on his blog that, “through some odd twists in the road over the past year…I find myself starting employment at Google today.”
If you haven’t been following closely, the move comes amidst a lawsuit- Google accused of “knowingly, directly and repeatedly” infringing Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property with its Android operating system.
Speculations thrive that Gosling will come over to the Google-side to work on Android, how ironic? We sure know that having the father of the programming language on your side is highly beneficial, when the lawsuit is goes to trial.
Gosling joins other big names like Tim Bray and Vint Cerf at Google that intends to harness the world’s information. We can only wonder what purpose will Gosling serve, when Google has its hands everywhere.
