Sun to sell Microsoft Windows Server boxes … ?!
What is going on in the land of Sun Microsystems today? In a rather stunning bit of news, Microsoft and Sun announced at a press conference that Sun has signed up to become a Windows Server Original...
View ArticleRed Hat makes Java contribution — what was the hold up?
It took them about a year, but Red Hat finally got on board with Sun Microsystems and Java this week when it announced that it signed Sun’s contributor agreement that covers participation in all...
View ArticleThe best open-source SQL server under the sun?
SELECT company FROM mysql INNER JOIN sun ON mysql.about_time = sun.smart_move By now most people have heard the news: Sun is acquiring MySQL. I was sharing the announcement with co-workers when one of...
View ArticleA bright future for MySQL
The recent acquisition of open source database vendor MySQL by software supergiant Sun Microsystems has many asking if this is a good thing. SearchEnterpriseLinux.com expert Don Rosenberg thinks so. He...
View ArticleVIPs’ drop-ins delight MySQL dinner guests
At the MySQL conference in Santa Clara, Calif., Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green, Sun’s senior vice president of software, dropped in unexpectedly in an informal dinner organized...
View ArticleSun kisses and makes up
Sun Microsystems Inc. just did a smart about-face. According to well-known open source analyst and blogger Bill Weinberg, a few years ago Sun quit the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) Carrier- Grade...
View ArticleUbuntu gains another win in major server certification quest
The little distribution that could, Ubuntu Linux Server Edition supported by Canonical Ltd., announced that it was on its way to achieving certification on Hewlett-Packard’s ProLiant x86 servers....
View ArticleOpen source community reacts to Oracle-Sun deal
Yesterday’s news that Oracle had entered an agreement to buy Sun sent a bit of a shock wave through the open source community. After weeks of pondering what an IBM buyout of Sun would mean, the IT...
View ArticleReaders weigh in on Sun/Oracle impact
This post was written by News Contributor, Pam Derringer. A May 5 story on SearchEnterpriseLinux.com about the decline of Sun Microsystems and its recent purchase by Oracle Corp. drew some thoughtful,...
View ArticleOracle passes OpenOffice.org on to the Apache Software Foundation
Oracle has contributed the OpenOffice.org code to the Apache Software Foundation’s (ASF) Incubator, marking the end of Oracle ownership of the popular Sun legacy open source project. But, Oracle may...
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