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Sun juggles love of code with need for cash
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| Mickos, former CEO of MySQL, also pledged to keep the database open source.
| Murdock, the founder of the Debian GNU Linux distro, urged projects outside
| Sun to refrain from attacking Sun's Solaris or NetBeans, insisting they
| should instead focus on the common enemy - closed-source software.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/05/06/sun_open_source/
A Brief History of Sun by Groklaw's grouch - Updated
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| Yesterday, I noted that there has been a change in management, and the guy
| who signed that agreement is gone. On the other hand, they still offer
| OpenSolaris as a competing product. On the third hand, no one showed up at
| trial to testify for SCO. So the real question I was asking was, has Sun
| changed? After all, Microsoft talks a lot about openness and such, but they
| fail to convince me that they wouldn't kill and eat my cat if they thought
| there was money in it. Ethics is the real value add to FOSS, you know. It's
| the one thing Microsoft can't embrace, extend and extinguish. The hovering
| doubt in my mind was, did Sun benefit from the SCO assault on Linux? Did they
| intend it? Is it all still playing out as they hoped? Clearly SCO's attack
| failed, but no one predicted that. So, other than that, what exactly is the
| answer to my question?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080506120544368
Sun's OpenSolaris to Shine Through Amazon's Cloud
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| The OpenSolaris group has added features to make installing and using its
| much easier -- and more like installing and using Linux and the LAMP stack
| for development. For instance, Sun said its LiveCD installation and the new
| network-based OpenSolaris Image Packaging System (IPS) are designed to
| simplify and speed installation and integration with third-party
| applications.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/62873.html
Recent:
Microsoft stock drops amid slumping sales
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| Microsoft Corp., whose Windows software dominates the personal-computer
| market, fell 6.2 percent Fridayin Nasdaq trading after sales slumped, casting
| doubt on whether PC demand can hold up in a slowing economy. The software
| maker reported a 24 percent drop in sales of Windows last quarter and
| forecast earnings that may miss analysts' estimates.
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| [...]
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| "The risk is that Linux gets a foothold and then affects their long-term
| revenue significantly."
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http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_9061263
Does Microsoft Need Yahoo Before Its Windows Shatter?
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| And what happens if Windows becomes moot? Microsoft loses the foundation of
| its success–your desktop. If we agree that Google is building its empire
| around your web browser, it’s fair to say that Microsoft has built its empire
| around your operating system. If Microsoft Windows takes a huge hit, the
| company loses that solid foundation. But, if Microsoft can acquire Yahoo, it
| will find itself with a back-up platform–your web browser.
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http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/04/does-microsoft-need-yahoo-before-its-windows-shatter.html
Microsoft's DreamSpark – What a Giveaway
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| The rest of the $44.6bn (£22.3bn) deal would be financed with an undisclosed
| amount of credit.
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| What that means is that it must squeeze as much money as it can from its
| operations to fund that debt and still pay dividends to shareholders, who
| will be looking for some payback from the Yahoo takeover.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsofts-dreamspark-%E2%80%93-what-giveaway
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