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Tag Archives: Oracle
Daily Links for Wednesday, October 21, 2009 – Early Edition
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
Why Oracle and Red Hat are “in it”
A couple of weeks ago and now on the Sun website, Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison stated that “We’re in it to win it.” Red Hat’s response is “We’re in it to share it.” Red Hat has a video on the … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 31, 2009 – Evening Edition
Sun absorbs $147M loss as Oracle deal looms The Associated Press / Jordan Robertson Sun Microsystems Inc. recorded a $147 million loss while sales eroded 31 percent in the April-June period, likely the server and software maker’s last full quarter … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 7, 2009
Linux and Sun IBM: UNIX to Linux Migration Rate Growing “Inna Kuznetsova, Director, Linux Strategy, led the meeting attended by IT analysts and painted a telling picture of what IBM’s Linux business has been in recent months: in short, strong … Continue reading
Who did you buy today?
Oracle is buying BEA for $8.5B and Sun is buying MySQL for $1B. Where’s my checkbook?
Oracle’s technical comments on OOXML / DIS 29500
Oracle’s technical comments for national standards bodies considering how to vote on Microsoft’s product Office XML format, aka OOXML, aka, OpenXML, aka DIS 29500, are now available on the OpenDocument Format Alliance website in PDF form.
links for 2007-03-27
Demise of Print InfoWorld: InfoWorld Brand Moves Online “The news hit the internet this morning: as of next month, InfoWorld will no longer be distributed in a print edition.” About time, I hope the others follow. (tags: news) Office 2.0 … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-26
Linux and Open Source Novell announces PCs preloaded with SUSE Linux “Wouldn’t it be great to just get a PC with Linux already installed and ready to go? Novell thinks that’s a grand idea too” (tags: novell linux suse) Ellison … Continue reading
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Tagged Linux, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, WordPress
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links for 2006-10-25
Open Source Oracle courts Ubuntu, Red Hat in denial “Even if Red Hat’s relationship with Oracle is still more or less intact despite Ellison’s barbs, the Linux distributor needs to recognize that Oracle now considers them a competitor.” (tags: redhat … Continue reading
CNet article: “IBM plays XML card in effort to beat Oracle”
Normally I would just throw this into my del.icio.us links, but it hits so many of my topics that I wanted to call it out explicitly. The article, by Martin Lamonica of CNet is “IBM plays XML card in effort … Continue reading
links for 2006-05-26
Open Source What’s next for the Portland project Improving desktop linux. (tags: linux) Proposal: Open Source Atom Implementation From James Snell. (tags: atom opensource) DRM Playlist: Apple still faces DRM hurdles, uncertainty in France “But a more restrictive version could … Continue reading
links for 2006-04-21
Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems Done by Harvard Berkman Center with IBM and Oracle sponsorship. Required reading. (tags: open standards government guidelines opensource) A Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies Provides a calm, sane way of thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source
Tagged Java, Linux, ODF, Oracle, Red Hat, Ubuntu
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links for 2006-04-17
Red Hat’s Szulik Discusses JBoss Deal Szulik quotes Dylan, though in a rather strange context. (tags: linux redhat jboss) France to Apple: don’t act so surprised Interoperability = good. (tags: drm) Mozilla Plugs Firefox Bugs I have it set up … Continue reading
