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Oracle Sun Merger Wins EU Approval
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| Oracle moved closer to sealing its $7.4
| billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems
| Thursday, as the European Union's antitrust
| body formally signed off on the deal
| following a three-month investigation into
| its impact on competition in the IT sector.
|
| "I am now satisfied that competition and
| innovation will be preserved on all the
| markets concerned," said EU competition
| commissioner Neelie Kroes, in a statement.
| "Oracle's acquisition of Sun has the
| potential to revitalize important assets
| and create new and innovative products,"
| said Kroes.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222400062
Oracle to provide Sun road map next week
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| Oracle will provide more details about its
| plans for Sun Microsystems at an event next
| Wednesday, the same day European regulators
| are expected to sign off on the deal.
|
| CEO Larry Ellison will host the event at
| Oracle's headquarters in Redwood Shores,
| California, where executives will outline
| Oracle's strategy for absorbing Sun,
| including details about product road maps,
| Oracle said in a statement.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/333300/oracle_provide_sun_road_map_next_week?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
UPDATED: Sun CEO Issues Memo in Wake of Oracle Acquisition Greenlight
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| During his tenure as CEO of Sun, Schwartz
| was best known as the pony-tailed lover of
| all things open source, quixotically
| dressed on stage in pinstripe suits. Iâm
| betting he has serious doubts about
| Oracleâs intent to advance Sunâs open
| source efforts.
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http://gigaom.com/2010/01/21/with-oracle-unlikely-to-drink-open-source-kool-aid-sun-ceo-jonathan-schwartz-bails/
EnterpriseDB Selected by Genscape for Energy Industry Inventory Analysis Solution
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/enterprisedb-selected-by-genscape-for-energy-industry-inventory-analysis-solution-82156742.html
Recent:
Why I will not sign the MySQL petition
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| If you sell something, you donât own it any
| longer. MySQL is now SUNs business. And if
| SUN decides to sell themselves to Oracle â
| it is their business. If the MySQL founders
| and fanboys donât like this, they simply
| shouldnât have sold MySQL to SUN in the
| first instance.
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http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-i-will-not-sign-the-mysql-petition/
Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?
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| What does âHelp MySQLâ advocate, in a
| nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to
| merge with Sun, MySQL customers would be
| trapped in a market that would be pretty
| much controlled and captured by Oracle,
| both through its existing propietary
| databases offerings and the acquisition of
| MySQL. Another issue explained on the web
| site is that the inherent free and open
| source nature of MySQL will not be enough
| to grant effective freedoms to the market
| since Oracle would be the sole copyright
| owner of the code and trademarks.
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http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/
MySQL: decision time is nigh
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| Is Oracle keen on MySQL because of the
| market control? Or is it because Oracle
| sees MySQL as a means to possibly defeat
| Microsoft's ambitions in the database
| market, where its SQL Server product is
| used for similar purposes as MySQL?
|
| The only person I've noticed who mentioned
| this is Eben Moglen , a well-known legal
| figure in free software circles.
|
| But anyone who knows anything about the
| history of the computer industry is aware
| of the intense animosity between Oracle
| supremo Larry Ellison and Microsoft co-
| founder Bill Gates.
|
| At the level at which these men operate,
| money isn't a consideration. Power is,
| rubbing one's competitor's face in the mud
| is, especially when there is past
| animosity. Here is just one example of how
| much Ellison dislikes Microsoft.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30340&Itemid=1090
Why MySQL's creator thinks IBM could acquire the database
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| A quick review of Save MySQL online petition
| stats shows that the results are still in
| line with the results I reported previously.
| Over 90 percent of petition signees would
| require Oracle to divest MySQL to a "suitable
| third party."
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/why-mysqls-creator-thinks-ibm-could-acquire-database-185
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