-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Oracle/Sun behemoth makes customer negotiations tricky
,----[ Quote ]
| "Believe it or not, Oracle would become the
| most powerful open source vendor in the
| market today, bar none," analyst George
| Weiss told audience members at this week's
| Gartner Data Center Conference in Las
| Vegas.
`----
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/120209-oracle-sun-customers.html
Sun's VirtualBox Revs, Perhaps for the Last Time
,----[ Quote ]
| VirtualBox will not be Oracle's first
| virtualization offering. Back in May the
| company acquired Virtual Iron, and we all
| saw how well that turned out for customers.
|
| As in, it didn't. Technology was kept and
| rolled into Oracle VM; development efforts
| were dumped. Move along Virtual Iron users,
| nothing to look at here.
`----
http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3850651/article.htm
Recent:
Oracle-Sun: Statements and observations
,----[ Quote ]
| We know they revolve around the open source
| MySQL database, the European Commission has said
| that much. But the Statement of Objections
| weighs in at 155 pages, and even those that have
| read it admit to being confused by it. Meanwhile
| some of the most vocal parties in the public
| debate have vested interests in encouraging
| opinions for or against the deal.
`----
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/11/30/oracle-sun-statements-and-observations/
What if Oracle's buyout of Sun falls through?
,----[ Quote ]
| With Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun
| Microsystems stalled by European Union
| deliberations, industry dignitaries offered
| mixed perspectives recently on the ultimate fate
| of the deal and what it could mean for Sun
| technologies if the deal falls through.
`----
http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2009/120109-what-if-oracles-buyout-of.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Open-source culture at heart of Oracle deal
,----[ Quote ]
| But like most open-source companies, MySQLâs
| sales, tied to support deals, never matched
| the astronomical number of downloads for its
| product, about 60,000 a day. In January 2008,
| the founders decided to sell the company for
| $1 billion to Sun Microsystems. And this
| year, Sun agreed to sell itself to Oracle,
| which makes database software aimed at larger
| companies and tougher jobs, for $7.4 billion.
`----
http://www.mydigitalfc.com/companies/open-source-culture-heart-oracle-deal-702
Oracle begs EC for more time
,----[ Quote ]
| The European Competition Commission is
| extending the deadline set for Oracle to
| provide evidence that its proposed takeover
| of Sun Microsystems will not damage
| competition for European consumers.
`----
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/oracle_commission_extension/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAksYYbgACgkQU4xAY3RXLo453ACfcEHitQx18Pbxc/MSTS2nK9D1
oZEAnRRp0XltuCYKzfyfW5UHGOz1Fiot
=/T1V
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
