Tag Archives: MySQL

Daily Links for Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Oracle gives open source a patent pass Computer Business Review Oracle has vowed not to assert its patents against open source projects such as the Linux operating system kernel and the MySQL and PosgreSQL databases by entering into … Continue reading →

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Daily Links for Wednesday, October 21, 2009 – Early Edition

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Open Source MySQL founder says Oracle should let go of MySQL Ars Technica / Ryan Paul Monty Widenius, one of the original founders of MySQL, has called for Oracle to sell off the open source database so that its pending … Continue reading →

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Daily Links for Monday, October 12, 2009

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Banco Pastor Reduces Costs, Increases Scalability and Boosts Performance with Red Hat, SAP and IBM Solutions Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world`s leading provider of open source solutions, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Banco Pastor, the seventh … Continue reading →

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Hunches and predictions for open source in 2009

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Bob Sutor

It’s that time of year again. Last year I wrote about challenges and priorities for open source, standards, and virtual worlds. In January, 2007, I reviewed my favorite blog entries for 2006 (and note that I was considerably more succinct … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-01-18

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Bob Sutor

Sun Micro’s MySQL Acquisition Is Bad News for Novell – Seeking Alpha “Sun Micro’s (JAVA) move to acquire MySQL is bad news for the folks over at Novell (NOVL).” (tags: sun novell mysql)

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links for 2008-01-16

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Bob Sutor

Coming to the Mac in 2008: ‘Spore’ | CNET News.com “That’s why EA is fine-tuning its relationship with Toronto-based TransGaming Technologies, a company that has developed a technology that makes it relatively easy for publishers like EA to develop Mac–or … Continue reading →

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Who did you buy today?

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Bob Sutor

Oracle is buying BEA for $8.5B and Sun is buying MySQL for $1B. Where’s my checkbook?

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links for 2007-06-05

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Open Source, Open Standards internetnews.com: Open Solutions Alliance Takes Aim at IP Risk “Interoperability, intellectual property and security are among the perceived barriers to adoption for open source software.” (tags: opensource) Open Sources | InfoWorld | IDC: This open source … Continue reading →

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Apache, PHP, Mac

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Bob Sutor

The good news is that since the Mac OS X is based on the BSD flavor of Unix, it comes with things like PHP and Apache. The bad news is that both are pathetically backlevel. This is fixable, however, and … Continue reading →

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Open source software as market competition

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Bob Sutor

I was reading a comment in a blog that expressed a typical whine I’ve heard a lot of lately: that Open Office was designed from the start to compete with Microsoft Office and steal precious marketshare. The secondary attitude that … Continue reading →

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