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The Great Oracle Experiment
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| This, ultimately, is the most reassuring
| aspect of the Great Oracle Experiment: if
| things go wrong, there is always the
| possibility of taking the code elsewhere
| (if Oracle doesn't mind) or just forking
| it (if it does). In this respect,
| takeovers of companies that control open
| source projects are rather less nerve-
| wracking for users than those involving
| purely proprietary software â a fact that
| we can all be grateful for after the
| worrying uncertainty that has surrounded
| the Sun-Oracle deal during the last few
| months.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2767
Oracle Begins Picking Its Sun A-Team
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| Michael Bemmer, the former head of Sun's
| software business, is now the general
| manager of the Oracle Office Global
| Business Unit and is in many of the clips.
| He said there will be a name change for
| Star Office and Star Suite, which will
| become members of the Oracle Office
| family.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3861956/Oracle-Begins-Picking-Its-Sun-A-Team.htm
Top 8 MySQL Management Tools
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| A large percentage of small to medium
| sized websites depend on Mysql server to
| support their db infrastructure. Working
| with it is as easy is saying it and for
| some reason there are numerous web and
| non-web administration software written
| specifically to manage a Mysql server and
| sites running on it. This article lists
| quite a few of them which you may find
| useful.
|
| 1. NG-Admin â designed for the content
| management of MySQL databases. It
| allows the user to browse, add, edit,
| and delete data. It is somewhat similar
| to phpMyAdmin, but specializes in
| editing the content of Web sites, not
| the database structures. Its features
| are very easy to use and highly
| tunable.
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http://www.mynitor.com/2010/02/01/top-8-mysql-management-tools/
MySQL Founder Monty Widenius On What to Expect Next
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| OStatic: Some people say it doesn't matter
| in the long run what Oracle does with
| MySQL. It's open source, so it will just
| succeed in forked versions if Oracle does
| nothing with it or kills it? Are they
| right?
|
| No, a fork is not likely to save MySQL
| long term. I have outlined the reasons in
| detail in my blog.
|
| In short, the GPL only guarantees that the
| code will be available, not that it will
| be developed. If things are not developed
| fast enough (according to the needs if its
| users), it will very rapidly be
| uninteresting for the masses and slowly
| die.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/mysql-founder-monty-widenius-on-what-to-expect-next
Recent:
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/
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