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Why the EU should block Oracle/Sun
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| Last week, I argued that the European Commission, the European Union's top
| competition authority, was wasting its time delaying Oracle's acquisition of
| Sun. Since then, I've heard from Henrik Ingo, the COO (chief operating
| officer) for Monty Program Ab, the MySQL fork headed by MySQL's founder
| Michael "Monty" Widenius. He has a different take on the EU's opposition to
| the deal, and I thought it worth sharing his viewpoint with you.
|
| First, Ingo notes that "While it's true that many use MySQL for free [under
| the open-source GPL license), and some even hack on the GPL'd source code,
| most of MySQL's paying customers use MySQL under a commercial license which
| has nothing to do with Open Source. It is in this market that MySQL competes
| against Oracle and for those customers the GPL version of MySQL offers no
| consolation. This is the main reason why the EU is concerned."
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/14683/why_the_eu_should_block_oracle_sun
On the question of MySQLâs state of health
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/09/07/on-the-question-of-mysqls-
state-of-health/
The Curious Case of the Failing Connections
http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7515/1.html
EU holds up Sun buy-out over open source
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| Sun has got it in the neck - again - and the EU gets it right.
|
| The EU has delayed the now long-running acquisition of Sun by Oracle - out of
| which Sun's founders stand to make a very large pile of cash - because it
| wants to investigate a potential monopoly.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013704o-114626b,00.htm
Recent:
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
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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