MariaDB is in Debian/unstable now, and its great to see that we already have a Japanese po-debconf translation (in under a month!). The last time I was in Tokyo, Japan we seemed to have great interest in MariaDB, especially with the backing of MariaDB.com/SkySQL investment dollars and the MariaDB Foundation to keep things real.
For me, I’m happy to go back to Tokyo to talk to users about MariaDB. If you’re in the area on Tuesday, 18 February 2013, there is a …
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# The White House released some of the custom code it has developed for whitehouse.gov as open source.
# Pentaho reported 229% bookings growth and 177% Enterprise Edition customer growth in Q2.
# MuleSoft grew bookings by 140% in Q1.
# The beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now available, without Xen.
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[Read more]Marten Mickos joins Eucalyptus. Novell rejects Elliot. Perspectives on OSBC. And more.
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# Mårten Mickos was named CEO of Eucalyptus Systems.
# Novell’s board rejected Elliot’s takeover proposal as inadequate, will review other alternatives.
# North Bridge Venture Partners published the results of its Future of Open Source survey.
# Rob Bearden was appointed executive chairman of the board of Pentaho.
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[Read more]Matt Asay joins Canonical. Paula Hunter joins the CodePlex Foundation. And more.
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# Matt Asay joined Canonical as chief operating officer.
# Paula Hunter was named executive director of the CodePlex Foundation.
# Actuate recorded $6.5m in BIRT-related business for Q4; annual BIRT-related business of $18.2m up 18%.
# Glyn Moody outlined The Great Oracle Experiment.
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[Read more]EC approves Oracle-Sun. Google patents MapReduce. And more.
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EC approves Oracle-Sun
The European Commission cleared Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun
Microsystems. While Larry Ellison is set to unveil Oracle’s
Sun strategy on January 27th, Monty Widenius said he will go to the
Court of First Instance to appeal the decision.
# Pro-open source political party formed in Hungary.
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[Read more]Since the European Commission announced it was opening an in-depth investigation into the proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle with a focus on MySQL there has been no shortage of opinion written about Oracle’s impending ownership of MySQL and its impact on MySQL users and commercial partners, as well as MySQL’s business model, dual licensing and the GPL.
In order to try and bring some order to the conversation, we have brought together some of the most referenced blog posts and news stories in chronological order.
Part one took us from the announcement of the EC’s in-depth investigation up to the eve of the communication of the EC’s Statement of Objections.
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[Read more]That’s right, I said InnoDB+, with a “plus” at the end. I didn’t know it existed until, while following some links from Monty’s appeal to save MySQL, I decided to read a Groklaw post that links to Eben Moglen’s letter to the EU Commission, which includes this text:
Innobase could therefore have provided an enhanced version of InnoDB, like Oracle’s current InnoDB+, under non-GPL license, …
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# 10gen, the company behind MongoDB, has …
[Read more]Since the European Commission announced it was opening an in-depth investigation into the proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle with a focus on MySQL there has been no shortage of opinion written about Oracle’s impending ownership of MySQL and its impact on MySQL users and commercial partners, as well as MySQL’s business model, dual licensing and the GPL.
In order to try and bring some order to the conversation, we have brought together some of the most referenced blog posts and news stories in chronological order. Part one, below, takes us from the announcement of the EC’s in-depth investigation up to the eve of the communication of the EC’s Statement of Objections. We will continue to update part two until either the acquisition or the EC’s investigation …
[Read more]The future of MySQL. The SCO Group terminates Darl McBride. And more.
The future of MySQL
Monty Widenius urged Oracle to give up on MySQL in order to
land Sun while Richard Stallman, Knowledge Ecology International
(KEI) and the Open Rights Group sent a letter to the
EC urging it to block Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL. All of which
prompted Florian Mueller, who it should be noted is working with
Widenius as part of his campaign, to claim that there is growing public opposition to
Oracle owning Sun’s MySQL.
Meanwhile The VAR Guy reported on rumours that …
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