James Gosling, the storied Sun Microsystems software guru known as the father of Java, announced Monday that he's starting a new job at Internet search giant Google.
Gosling parted ways with another Silicon Valley giant last April, resigning from Oracle just a few months after the commercial software maker bought Sun for $7.2 billion. Known in the industry as something of a free spirit, he later criticized the culture at Oracle, complaining to an interviewer that executives had cut his salary and micromanaged his work.
Oracle is now at odds with Google, charging in a lawsuit last summer that Google's Android software infringes on patents for the widely used Java development platform, which Oracle acquired when it bought Sun. In an Aug. 12 blog post, Gosling wrote: "During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle."
Both Oracle and Google declined to comment Monday on the hiring of Gosling. On his blog Monday, Gosling said of his new job: "I don't know what I'll be working on. I expect it'll be a bit of everything, seasoned with a large dose of grumpy curmudgeon."
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