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[News] Red Hat Insists Oracle is Bad for Freedom, EU Blocks MySQL Acquisition for Now

  • Subject: [News] Red Hat Insists Oracle is Bad for Freedom, EU Blocks MySQL Acquisition for Now
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:14:00 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.9
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Red Hat CEO: Choose flexibility or Larry

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| During his keynote presentation at the Red Hat Summit 2009 conference in 
| Chicago, Whitehurst covered Red Hat talking points, including how the company 
| is working to build future IT architectures that are flexible and allow its 
| customers to meet demands of their own internal customers. Ellison, on the 
| other hand, presents the opposite of flexibility, according to Whitehurst.    
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2009/090209-red-hat-ceo-choose-flexibility.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news

Red Hatâs CEO Whitehurst takes aim at Oracle during âSummitâ

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| "Do you want to buy into Larry Ellison's vision of what your IT 
| infrastructure should be and what functionality you should provide to your 
| customers, or should you listen to your customers and be flexible," 
| Whitehurst asked the crowd.   
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http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/blogpost/5926318/

EU Commission Opens In Depth Investigation of Sun-Oracle Deal

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| The EU Commission has just released a press release. They are not going to 
| approve the Oracle takeover of Sun just yet anyway. Instead they are 
| launching an in depth investigation of the deal, and it's MySQL that seems to  
| be the issue. Here's the press release. This doesn't mean it won't happen, 
| and the deadline for a final result of the investigation is January 19, 2010. 
| But they are certainly asking the right question, namely, what happens to 
| MySQL in Oracle's hands?     
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090903122146904

EU delays Oracle-Sun deal, probing database market

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/eu-delays-oraclesun-deal-probing-database-market-20090903-f9wu.html


Recent:

Sun hopes to cash in on Java install base with new app store

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| Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz says the company will launch an application store
| for Java software. Sun hopes to cash in on its large Java install base by
| making the store accessible through the Java update system, but it needs to
| attract more popular software first.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/sun-hopes-to-cash-in-on-java-install-base-with-new-app-store.ars


Study: Java still top programming language

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| Java has its detractors, but according to a recent reading of the Tiobe
| Programming Community Index, it's still the dominant programming language,
| with little change in its overall popularity since August 2007. Runners up?
| C, (Visual) Basic, C++, and PHP.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10009669-16.html
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