Mike Olson, co-founder of Sleepycat, leaves Oracle
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| Mike sold Sleepyat, an open-source embedded database company, to Oracle back
| in February 2006. Much to my aggravation, I've never heard a negative word
| out of his mouth about his two-year stay with Oracle, either in public or
| private. Mike is class and gave to his employer what was due, and then some.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9867025-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Just comes to show that Oracle bought Sleepyat merely to 'punish' rivals.
What Microsoft can learn from Oracle: greed and market share
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| So while Microsoft attempts to persuade the world that it just wants to
| befriend everyone, Oracle buys, fires thousands of people, and makes a lot of
| money in the process. Oracle's method isn't pretty and it's certainly not the
| only way (nor is it the way that I'd personally choose), but it has been
| effective.
|
| For Microsoft to compete it may have to start owning up to its ambition. It
| wants market share. It wants dominance. It wants to remove customer choice.
| Just like Oracle.
|
| It might as well tell it like it is.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9866742-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Old:
Will Oracle launch Unbreakable MySQL?
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| "They have hinted to us that they will," said Mickos, indicating
| that the database giant is planning to repeat its October 2006
| Unbreakable Linux plan, which saw it undercut Red Hat with
| enterprise Linux support.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/01/will_oracle_lau.html
Oracle Rumored to Covet Ingres
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| Oracle might be looking to acquire open source database
| provider Ingres, according to speculation from analyst
| Bruce Richardson of AMR Research.
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http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=8127
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