WordPress Foundation formed. Reaction to Oracle-Sun approval. And more.
WordPress Foundation formed
# Matt Mullenwag launched the WordPress Foundation.
Reaction to Oracle-Sun’s EC approval
# In a memo Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz encouraged the company’s employees to
emotionally resign from Sun.
# EnterpriseDB and PostgreSQL co-founder Bruce Momjian issued a statement on the EC’s decision to approve Oracle-Sun.
# Mike Hogan …
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# VMware confirmed its acquisition of Zimbra from Yahoo.
# Facebook became a gold sponsor of the Apache Foundation and outlined its …
[Read more]IBM to acquire Sun? TomTom countersues Microsoft. Sun unveils Open Cloud Platform. Oracle’s contributions to the Linux kernel. SpringSource updates Tool Suite. And more.
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IBM to acquire Sun?
No prizes for guessing the big story this week as the Wall Street
Journal reported that IBM was in talks to buy Sun for
$6.5bn, according to “people familiar with the matter”. Raising
the game, the New York Times reported that the purchase price was nearer
$7bn citing “a person with knowledge of the negotiations”.
The media exploded with …
[Read more]Markus Rex returns to Novell’s Linux business unit. Red Hat’s second largest shareholder cuts its stake. The CEOs of Novell, Sonatype, Digium and Kaltura go on the record. Shaun Connolly joins SpringSource. And more.
Official announcements
Novell Announces Executive Appointments to Focus
on Cross-Platform Solution Strategy and Growing Linux
Business Novell
Palamida Finds Security Tops List of Concerns Inhibiting Broader Open Source Adoption Palamida
GigaSpaces Announces Extreme Scalability for MySQL Enterprise Customers GigaSpaces
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Having been a bit busy for the last three weeks I have a bit of catching up to do on the latest open source software news. Here’s the headlines that caught my eye.
MySQL co-founder resigns from Sun
No, not that one. David Axmark resigned stating “I HATE all the rules that I
need to follow, and I also HATE breaking them. It would be far
better for me to “retire” from employment and work with MySQL and
Sun on a less formal basis.” If I may paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to
lose one co-founder may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both …
Apparently the role of community managers is one of the coolest jobs around. Jono Bacon’s one for Ubuntu, and Jeff Waugh did an awesome job before that. Jay Pipes does a nice job for MySQL. Dawn Foster is the community manager that "powers" community managers at Jive Software who makes wicked-cool collaborative software.
Glyn penned an article about the proliferation of community managers. In his article he mentions …
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