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Oracle spikes HP's Solaris OEM contract
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| HP then went on for a few hundred words
| talking about how it would be happy to
| port ProLiant/Solaris customers to Windows
| or Linux - not just Red Hat and SUSE
| Linux, but Debian too - and reminding
| everyone that its Integrity HP-UX boxes
| exist. (Pity HP-UX doesn't run on x64
| iron, though.)
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/06/18/oracle_spikes_hp_solaris/
Solaris, OpenSolaris, and the Oracle wall of secrecy
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| And perhaps it is also telling that in an
| article posted on the Oracle website and
| extracted from the July/August 2010 issue
| of Oracle Magazine, that Ed Screven, who
| bears the title of chief corporate
| architect, never once mentioned Solaris or
| OpenSolaris.
|
| None of Oracle's actions (or inaction)
| could be construed as being proactive
| about telling the 50,000-strong Solaris
| customer base â from which Oracle is
| trying to extract $2bn in profits â what
| is going on with the platform.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/21/oracle_opensolaris_solaris_plans/
DOJ sues Oracle for alleged overcharging
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| The U.S. Justice Department has joined a
| whistleblower suit against Oracle that
| accuses it of defrauding the U.S.
| government.
|
| Filed back in May 2007 under the False
| Claims Act, the suit claims Oracle
| overcharged the federal government tens of
| millions of dollars by failing to offer it
| the same deep discounts the company offers
| commercial customers. That's a real
| problem, because Oracle was obligated to
| do just that under the terms of the
| General Services Administration contract
| by which it was bound.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20008015-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Oracle taps top attorney Boies for SAP suit
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| Oracle has brought in the big guns to
| assist in its intellectual-property
| lawsuit against rival applications vendor
| SAP, hiring attorney David Boies, well-
| known for his high-profile role
| prosecuting the U.S. government's landmark
| antitrust case against Microsoft.
|
| [...]
|
| The attorney's role in the Microsoft case,
| where he served as a special trial counsel
| for the U.S. Department of Justice, was
| just one highlight in a career many legal
| industry observers have called legendary.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178232/Oracle_taps_top_attorney_Boies_for_SAP_suit
Oracle taps top attorney Boies for SAP suit
http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-06-18/oracle-taps-top-attorney-boies-for-sap-suit.html
Recent:
Sun's stars: Where are they now? And why did they leave?
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| Key departures have included Java founder
| James Gosling, XML co-inventor Tim Bray, and
| Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open source
| officer.
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http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-05-18/sun-s-stars-where-are-they-now-and-why-did-they-leave-.html
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