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Tag Archives: Sun
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
Daily Links for Monday, October 12, 2009
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
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
LinuxWorld 2008 Prediction #3: Linux and x86
Although I’ve previously published the slides for the talk I gave at LinuxWorld 2008 in San Francisco, I thought it might be useful to add some additional comments in the blog about each of the eight predictions I made. This … Continue reading
links for 2008-03-11
The Mac The Mac snobbery, arrogance, confidence debate | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com “Laura B., commenter 2.2 in my second piece, made an important distinction between “arrogant” and “confident” (emphasis mine)” (tags: mac apple) Microsoft ITPro:OOXML: Standards for accepting … Continue reading
links for 2008-02-17
Can Microsoft be trusted on OOXML covenants?: Insight – Software – ZDNet Australia “Developers wanting to use Microsoft’s Office Open XML specification will need to brush up on their legal skills.” (tags: microsoft ooxml) Datamation Announces 2008 Product of the … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Patents, Politics / Government, Standards
Tagged Massachusetts, Microsoft, OOXML, Sun, Symphony
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links for 2008-01-18
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)
links for 2008-01-17
INTERVIEW: A look at Sun’s virtual world for internal collaboration “Started about a year ago as a collaborative effort between Sun and the open-source community, Wonderland is a virtual, 3-D website that allows people to build virtual worlds based on … Continue reading
links for 2008-01-16
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
Posted in Entertainment, Games, Macintosh, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged MySQL, Second Life, Sun
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Who did you buy today?
Oracle is buying BEA for $8.5B and Sun is buying MySQL for $1B. Where’s my checkbook?
links for 2008-01-12
British Schools Told to Avoid Vista Upgrade – New York Times “It also supported use of the international standard ODF (Open Document Format) for storing files.” (tags: uk odf microsoft vista) Erwin’s StarOffice Tango: Dispelling Myths Around ODF “I thought … Continue reading
links for 2007-12-15
Madonna, others named to Rock Hall of Fame – USATODAY.com “The ever-evolving Madonna was announced as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee on Thursday along with John Mellencamp, The Ventures, Leonard Cohen and The Dave Clark Five.” (tags: … Continue reading
links for 2007-11-27
24/7 Wall St.: Sun Microsystems Reflects Ticker Change Over 1-4 Reverse Split (JAVA, JAVAD) I had missed this when it was first announced. “The high-end server maker and owner of the rights to Java will temporarily change its stock ticker … Continue reading
Posted in Music, News, Open Source, Politics / Government, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Guitar, OOXML, Second Life, Sun
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links for 2007-11-02
OpenSocial OpenSocial opens new can of worms | CNET News.com “When Google announced that its new social-networking initiative would extend to any site that wanted to participate, the land grab for the social Web’s attention just got a whole lot … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Politics / Government, Web 2.0
Tagged Facebook, Google, Linux, Microsoft, MySpace, OpenSocial, Solaris, Sun
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links for 2007-09-28
Amazon Kills DRM And Puts iTunes On Notice – Apple Unvarnished – InformationWeek “Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) today launched its long-awaited digital download service, Amazon MP3, offering 256 Kbps unprotected MP3 music files for 89 cents and 99 cents.” (tags: mp3 … Continue reading
links for 2007-08-24
Stocks and Bonds Sun to change stock ticker to JAVA | Tech news blog – CNET News.com Please tell me that MSFT won’t become OOXML on NASDAQ next week. (grin) (tags: sun java) iPod and Open Source Rock the iPod … Continue reading
Posted in Music, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Java, Microsoft, OOXML, OpenOffice.org, Second Life, Sun
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links for 2007-08-17
Operating Systems Forrester: Businesses still saying no to Vista | InfoWorld | By Eric Lai, Computerworld “An anticipated rush by businesses to adopt Windows Vista hasn’t materialized as IT managers stick with familiar systems and wait for the release of … Continue reading
links for 2007-08-13
PC Pro: News: Google adds StarOffice to its free software pack “Not content with taking on Microsoft Office with its online Docs and Spreadsheet service, Google has now included StarOffice in its free download suite.” (tags: google sun staroffice openoffice) … Continue reading
links for 2007-08-09
Open Source Sun lowers barriers to open-source Java | CNET News.com “Sun Microsystems is making it easier for open-source programmers to ensure their Java versions meet the company’s compatibility requirements, but the deal extends only to those involved in Sun’s … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-09
Solaris, Meet Linux Sun Micro to revamp Solaris with Linux features: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance “Sun Microsystems Inc. (NasdaqGS:SUNW – News) is revamping its Solaris operating system, incorporating key pieces of rival Linux software in a move that could … Continue reading
Posted in Bob Dylan, Music, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Bob Dylan, concert, PS3, Second Life, Solaris, Sony, Sun
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links for 2007-07-06
The FASTForward Blog » Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL only: Enterprise 2.0 News, Coverage, and Commentary See comments from Simon at the end, for added fun and debate. (tags: sun gplv3) Ugly Airline Math: Planes … Continue reading
links for 2007-05-17
Microsoft Rallies the Open Source Community, Possibly Accelerating Adoption ConsortiumInfo.org – Through the Patent Looking Glass with Microsoft’s Brad Smith “And then you find that all-powerful Oz (and his patent portfolio) doesn’t look so all powerful, after all.” (tags: microsoft … Continue reading
links for 2007-05-10
WordPress Automattic Stats « Extend › Plugins New WordPress statistics plugin. (tags: wordpress plugin blogging statistics stats) Sun eWeek: Can JBI 2 Succeed Where JBI 1 Did Not? “As Java Business Integration 1.0 failed to become the success its supporters … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Java, OpenOffice.org, real estate, Solaris, Sun, WordPress
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links for 2007-04-30
Hackety Hack: the Coder’s Starter Kit “One of Hackety Hack’s sincere pledges is to make the most common code very easy and short.” (tags: ruby programming education kids code) Norty Pig » Blog Archive » MS Ultimate 2007 Backward Compatibility … Continue reading
Open source software as market competition
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
links for 2007-03-20
Second Life Watarrka Park at 229, 67 (slurl) Second Life open source information center. (tags: secondlife opensource) Linux Red Hat Plans Linux Desktop Offering ‘for the Masses’ “Red Hat is planning a packaged Linux desktop solution that it hopes will … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source, Standards, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Google, Linux, ODF, Red Hat, Second Life, Sun, Ubuntu
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links for 2007-03-07
Current Events Comedy fest names Colbert person of year ‘Stephen Colbert, a faux conservative who often honors himself on his Comedy Central show, was lauded by the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival as their “Person of the Year.”‘ (tags: colbert comedy) … Continue reading
Posted in Bob Dylan, Games, Music, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Bob Dylan, Google, Microsoft, Second Life, Stephen Colbert, Sun
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Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz weighs in on ODF
See his blog entry “My Family Photos – and ODF.”
links for 2007-02-08
OpenDocument Software Gains Momentum – Microsoft Office, ODF – CRN “Texas and Minnesota’s willingness to adopt the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a statewide standard for office software may prompt other states to seriously consider alternatives to Microsoft’s products.” (tags: odf … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News
Tagged Microsoft, Minnesota, ODF, OOXML, OpenOffice.org, Sun, Texas
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