Yahoo sets program to boost distributed computing
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| Yahoo has been a main supporter of Hadoop, an open source distributed file
| system that lets users process massive amounts of data. The company said it
| would make Hadoop available to academic research in a supercomputing-class
| data center.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSWNAS201020071112?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews
http://tinyurl.com/39o5qm
127 million Oracle shares vote for open source at annual shareholders meeting
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| While seemingly a lot, 127 million shares doesn't add up to much in Oracle's
| world. 127,717,018 shares only account for 3.58% of Oracle's total share
| count.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9814695-16.html
Related:
Yahoo! Answers is rejecting Open-Source options in answers
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| Someone got a computer from a friend that has some serious problems
| with Windows. S/he has none of the disks (XP or restore) and was
| asking for recommendations.
|
| [...]
|
| How is recommending freely available and legal alternatives abuse?
| ImgBurn is also a perfectly legal program, so are Ubuntu and Kubuntu
| (they're Linux).
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http://amandakerik.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/yahoo-answers-is-rejecting-open-source-options-in-answers/
http://tinyurl.com/ywglv7
Open source as a shareholder issue
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| Oracle’s board opposes the proposal - which might upset some open source
| purists - and has outlined its belief that such a report is unnecessary. In
| its proxy statement the company points out that it already makes available
| details of its open source projects.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/10/08/open-source-as-a-shareholder-issue/
Oracle's Unbreakable Linux...All about Microsoft?
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| Oracle therefore needs to shore up its market share on Linux, which
| becomes easier the lower the price of Linux becomes. Price aside,
| tying Linux into the Oracle database and applications in a similar
| way to how Microsoft ties its products into Windows makes a lot of sense.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/oracles_unbreak.html
Is Oracle Good for the Linux Market?
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| Over the long term, it's possible that the Oracle/Red Hat dynamic
| could ultimately prove less divisive than an LSB unified Linux.
| But in the interim, Oracle's likely to be lowering the oxygen content
| in the largest commercial Linux market in return for what I believe
| are likely to be modest gains. Do the risks justify the returns in
| this case? Not from where I'm sitting, but I promise to keep an
| open mind.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/04/09/is-oracle-good-for-the-linux-market/
Oracle drives rise of open source embedded database
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| Oracle acquired Berkeley DB's originator, Sleepycat, in February
| 2006, provoking speculation that it was moving to close down
| some of the open source competition that was eating at its market
| share. Instead, Oracle has provided a commercially licensed version
| alongside the open source project.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/03/15/222420/oracle-drives-rise-of-open-source-embedded-database.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2a35nd
Former Oracle President: Taking On Ellison?
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| The startup is developing new methods to ensure interoperability between
| open source applications--which will increasingly compete with Oracle's
| commercial software stacks.
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http://techiqmag.com/2007/02/20/larry-ellisons-former-sidekick-returns/
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