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Jilted Sun Snapped Up by Oracle for Application Systems
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| Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder and chief executive officer, explained how
| Solaris Unix is the most popular platform on which Oracle's eponymous
| databases are deployed, but quickly added that Linux was number two on the
| operating system hit parade for Oracle and that the acquisition in no way,
| shape, or form meant that Oracle was backing off on its support for Linux,
| particularly its own clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, called Oracle
| Enterprise Linux. Ellison added that the deal would mean that Oracle could
| tightly integrate its databases with Solaris, and that this integration would
| allow Oracle to offer Sun systems that would have lower TCO than
| alternatives.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh042709-story04.html
Roll Your Own Linux with New Solutions
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| When it comes to operating systems, are you tired of taking what's thrown at
| you? It's funny how operating system vendors believe that "one size fits
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| want it to be web-based? You got it. You want it to be easy to use? Got it.
| Anything else? You also want more than one choice that fits all those
| criteria? Yep, got that too.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3817381
Recent:
What the Oracle Acquisition of Sun Means for Linux
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| Both Sun and Oracle are members of the Linux Foundation, with Oracle a
| prominent supporter of the Foundation with its platinum membership. We look
| forward to working with the combined company to further the growth of open
| source, open standards, and Linux.
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http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/2009/04/20/what-the-oracle-acquisition-of-sun-means-for-linux/
Shuttleworth: Oracle's Sun buy validates open source
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| He argued that the major sources in software today are either free software
| or powered by free software, Google Yahoo etc.
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| "The fact that Oracle has just announced a multi-billion dollar
| acquisition of a company that describes itself as the world's biggest
| Free Software and Open Source company to me is enormously instructive,"
| Shuttleworth said. "To me it suggests that it cements the idea that open
| source and free software are the big game in town. And everyone is trying
| to figure out what that means and how they integrate it, what' they can't
| do is ignore it."
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/04/shuttleworth-oracles-sun-buy-v.html
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