CodePlex, patents and Linux code. An interesting few days for Microsoft open source.
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CodePlex, CodePlex, CodePlex!
Microsoft launched the CodePlex Foundation to facilitate
open source contributions, and confirmed the departure of Sam Ramji.
Patents, Patents, Patents!
The OIN confirmed the acquisition of 22 patents formerly
owned by …
Update 16-Sep-09: Apparently, all this was true and you can find more details after the announcement that posted here.
OK. It’s not often that I make predictions these days but this was on my mind for a while so here we go. Mind you, I don’t have any confirmed insider information so it’s based on some assumptions, my perspective on Oracle-Sun acquisition and some vibes I can feel in the air.
The rumors are that Oracle Exadata v2 and Oracle Database Machine v2 are going to be announced within few weeks and my take is that it’s going to happen at the Oracle Open World. I don’t think it comes as a surprise to anyone that it will be configured with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.
Moving on to …
[Read more]Today (September 10, 13:00 UTC), Mark Leith will show how to customize the MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Customizing MySQL Enterprise Monitor. Mark is a MySQL support manager, and knows Enterprise Monitor by heart.
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[Read more]Today (September 10, 13:00 UTC), Mark Leith will show how to customize the MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Customizing MySQL Enterprise Monitor. Mark is a MySQL support manager, and knows Enterprise Monitor by heart.
For MySQL University sessions, point your browser to this page. You need a browser with a working Flash plugin. You may register for a Dimdim account, but you don't have to. (Dimdim is the conferencing system we're using for MySQL University sessions. It provides integrated voice streaming, chat, whiteboard, session recording, and more.) All MySQL University sessions are recorded, that is, slides and voice can be viewed as a Flash movie (.flv). You can find those …
[Read more]Today (September 10, 13:00 UTC), Mark Leith will show how to customize the MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Customizing MySQL Enterprise Monitor. Mark is a MySQL support manager, and knows Enterprise Monitor by heart.
For MySQL University sessions, point your browser to this page. You need a browser with a working Flash plugin. You may register for a Dimdim account, but you don't have to. (Dimdim is the conferencing system we're using for MySQL University sessions. It provides integrated voice streaming, chat, whiteboard, session recording, and more.) All MySQL University sessions are recorded, that is, slides and voice can be viewed as a Flash movie (.flv). You can find those …
[Read more]Reaction to EC’s Oracle-Sun delay. OIN to acquire ex-Microsoft patents. And more.
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Reaction to EC’s Oracle-Sun delay
Despite widespread criticism of the European Commission’s
decision to open a formal investigation into Oracle’s proposed
acquisition of Sun, Glyn Moody maintained that the EC deserves credit for
making open source a central part of its analysis. Meanwhile
Monty Program (by way of Steven J Vaughan Nicholls) explained why the EU
should block Oracle/Sun, Roberto Galoppini reported …
Matt Asay has written an interesting post speculating that Oracle might use the delay caused by the European Commission investigation into its acquisition of Sun to drive the price down. Sounds reasonable enough to me.
In it, Matt makes a couple of statements, one I agree with: “Oracle… likely will prove to be a better manager of this asset than Sun was”; and one that I have real doubts about: “MySQL’s… doing just fine, thank you”.
MySQL might well be doing fine. Unfortunately Sun’s financial results don’t actually provide any evidence either way.
Billings for the MySQL/Infrastructure were up 51% to $313m in FY09, according to information presented with Sun’s financial results, with revenue hitting $100m (up 10%) in …
[Read more]Topics for this podcast:
*EC pauses Oracle-Sun over MySQL
* Open source licenses debated
* Red Hat growth opportunities and Summit roundup
* Reductive Labs seeking cloud role for Puppet software
* VMware-SpringSource analyzed
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It's almost two weeks now since FrOSCon and the OpenSQL
Camp subconference have taken place in Sankt Augustin,
Germany — about time for a summary and update from my side!
First off, I would like to thank all of the participants and supporters, particularly my colleagues Regina Steyer and Iris Musiol for the perfect logistics and co-sponsoring as well as Uli Graef, Thorsten Frueauf, Matthias Schmidt, Alexander Rubin and Joerg Moellenkamp for manning the Sun booth and the help on site.
Another big Thank You goes out to my team mates …
[Read more]Red Hat round-up. EC to review Oracle-Sun. Dedicated Ubuntu support. And more.
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Red Hat announcements round-up
Red Hat announced a whole heap of products and projects this
week. They should have organized an event to coincide with all
the announcements. Or something. The biggest news was probably
the launch of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 including KVM and other
virtualization capabilities, while Red Hat and HP partnered to optimize
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for HP BladeSystem Matrix. The
company also revealed that Red Hat Network Satellite …