If the Java API's are deemed copyrightable,

The jury returned, but were deadlocked on that particular part of the suite. It looks like a mis-trial, so we'll have to wait a few more months before we find out.

Even then, if that local court decides APIs are copyrightable, the smart money is that the industry will band together to get it overturned at appeal. The potential consequencies for the industry as a whole are just too wide ranging for it to stand. It would also be out of step withthe rest of the world.

I hear on the grapevine that there are some big players readying ' What's good for the goose...' suits against Oracle should they win.

would Parrot become a target for Oracle?

Until the Perl Foundation or whomever else can be cited as 'the perpetrator' gets (say) 1% as rich as Google Inc., I seriously doubt that Ellison would let slip his Dogs of Law.