James Gosling is known for founding Java while working at Sun Microsystems. After Oracle bought out Sun, Gosling decided not to quit. It turns out that Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has hired Gosling for an undecided position.

Former Sun CEOs Scott McNealy and Ed Zander were at a Churchill Club dinner earlier this week and McNealy shared a story about how the company almost bought out Apple. However if that deal went through, we most likely would not see the invention of iPods or iPads because McNealy said he wold “have screwed that up.” Around 1995, Sun was one of the largest producers of servers, data storage systems, and unix data center software. When Sun was at one of its highest points, they went into negotiations for buying out Apple.

Earlier this year Amsterdam based software consulting company Software Improvement Group warned the government not to implement OpenOffice.org unless Oracle proved they will properly maintain the software. Before Oracle bought out Sun Microsystems, Sun had properly maintained and invested in OpenOffice.org.

James Gosling invented the Java Programming Language and also implemented the original compiler and virtual machine. Gosling worked at Sun Microsystems since 1984. Oracle bought out Sun in April 2009.

“Yes, indeed, the rumors are true: I resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd). I apologize to everyone in St Petersburg who came to TechDays on Thursday expecting to hear from me. I really hated not being there. As to why I left, it’s difficult to answer: Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good. The hardest part is no longer being with all the great people I’ve had the privilege to work with over the years. I don’t know what I’m going to do next, other than take some time off before I start job hunting,” said Gosling in a blog post. [Nighthacks.com via eWeek]

Tim Bray, the co-inventor of XML and a tech blogger was a Sun Microsystems employee (now property of Oracle). Now he has joined the Google Android team.

“Google and I have been a plausible match for a long time. Web-centric, check. Search, check. Open-source, check. The list goes on,” stated Bray in a blog post called Now A No-Evil Zone. “We’ve talked repeatedly over the years, but the conversations all ended at the point when I said ‘…and I don’t want to move to the Bay Area.’”

Bray had an offer from Oracle, but he declined. “I’ll maybe tell the story when I can think about it without getting that weird spiking-blood-pressure sensation in my eyeballs.” [TBray.org]

Michael “Monty” Widenius, the creator of MySQL is not happy with Oracle’s treatment of the open source database. The European Commission is currently investigation regulatory concerns about Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, parent company of MySQL.

“Oracle claims that it would take good care of MySQL but let’s face the facts: Unlike ten years ago, when MySQL was mostly just used for the web, it has become very functional, scalable and credible. Now it’s used in many of the world’s largest companies and they use it for an increasing number of purposes. This not only scares but actually hurts Oracle every day,” stated MySQL founder Monty Widenius. “Oracle have [sic] to lower prices all the time to compete with MySQL when companies start new projects. Some companies even migrate existing projects from Oracle to MySQL to save money. Of course Oracle has a lot more features, but MySQL can already do a lot of things for which Oracle is often used and helps people save a lot of money. Over time MySQL can do to Oracle what the originally belittled Linux did to commercial Unix (roughly speaking).”

Monty added that Oracle has not promised to keep MySQL under an open license. He also said that Oracle does not promise to update patches in a timely manner for MySQL or to improve the open source database language to compete with Oracle’s own offerings. Oracle responded to Monty in the form of a press release where they insisted the proper maintenance of MySQL. Below is the full press release:

Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures and co-founder of Sun Microsystems has raised $1.1 billion for his venture firm.  About $800 million will be going to Khosla Ventures III and $275 million will go to a new seed fund.

Altogether $1.1 billion is the largest that a venture firm has raised in the last 10 years.  This is also the first time that Khosla Ventures raised money externally.  One of the biggest partners in this round of funding is CALPERS (the California state employees retirement fund).

The previous rounds of Khosla Ventures were provided by Vinod Khosla himself.  Khosla founded the venture firm in 2004 and now the company has 8 partners.  Gideon Yu was recently hired as a General Partner at Khosla.  Before that he was the CFO of Facebook.

Sun Microsystems Inc. has reported a $147 million loss for the April-June quarter.  This is likely the last quarter that the company will have before being absorbed by Oracle.  Oracle agreed to buy out Sun for $7.4 billion back in April, but the deal is pending approval from European antitrust regulators.

The numbers were reported on a regulatory filing but there wasn’t a news release or conference call.  Sun Microsystems invented the JAVA programming language which is a key component for the web, PC applications, and mobile applications.

About a year ago during the same quarter, Sun had a profit of $88 million.  Revenues for this past quarter was $2.63 billion.  The year before, sales were $3.78 billion.  Thomson Reuters analysts expected revenues to be $2.37 billion for the quarter.