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The Fight to Save MySQL: Interview with Monty Widenius
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| Similarly, Widenius denies being motivated by
| an attempt to receive more money for his
| former interest in MySQL or to make Monty
| Program AB profitable by placing himself in
| the spotlight. He has invested much of the
| 16.6 million Euros he received from Sun's
| purchase of MySQL in Monty Program AB, and
| frankly admits that the company has next to no
| chance of making a profit. Nor is he
| interested in selling Monty Program unless he
| can find a buyer with open source's interests
| at heart.
|
| Instead, he claims to be opposing Oracle's
| acquisition out of a sense of personal
| responsibility: to his employees, to his
| customers, and to the larger open source
| community.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3861016/
Recent:
Sun and Oracle's impact on open source acquisitions
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| Of course, vendors that fit into both the open
| source and cloud-related categories will be
| among the most attractive targets. And truth be
| told, a startup in 2010 is more than likely to
| use open source to drive developer adoption and
| monetize that adoption in the cloud. As a
| result, it'll become increasingly difficult to
| distinguish an open source vendor from a cloud
| vendor. Either way, the exit potential for
| these vendors looks bright.
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/sun-and-oracles-impact-open-source-acquisitions-104
Oracle poised to relocate as Sun acquisition approved
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| A JUBILANT Oracle is gearing up to relocate its
| Scottish headquarters from Edinburgh to
| Linlithgow, following the European Commission's
| approval of its Â4.5 billion acquisition of Sun
| Microsystems.
|
| European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes
| ended several months of uncertainty last week,
| saying she was now satisfied that the proposed
| takeover of one US technology giant by another
| will preserve competition and innovation.
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http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/business/Oracle-poised-to-relocate-as.6008774.jp
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