Oracle, after dating HP, Dell, Netapp and EMC has found its mate
in Sun. Oracle is now becoming a systems company, and unceremoniously dumping
these former paramours. These leaves the spurned lovers to find
alternate accommodations, especially in the area of the
database.
As I have stated previously on this blog, the clear partner of
choice on the Windows front is Microsoft. This is demonstrated by
today’s partner announcement around MS SQL Server for
OLTP. But who is their partner in the Linux segment?
The following are contenders:
* Postgres (HP rolls their own)
* EnterpriseDB (pre-rolled Postgres)
* Ingres or Sybase—Oracle has felled them both in the past, …
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15
2009
Recent non-Oracle/EC/MySQL news.
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For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask
# Novell reshuffled its Linux business into Security, Management and Operating Platforms business unit.
# HP partnered with Red Hat, Novell and Microsoft to target Sun migrations.
# The US DoJ …
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Sep
04
2009
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 …
Sep
01
2009
Intalio acquires Jetty. Red Hat updates JBoss platform. $12m funding for Medsphere. And more.
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# Intalio acquired Webtide, developer of Jetty application server.
# Red Hat delivered JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0, as well as JBoss Operations Network (ON) 2.3 and launched Catalyst partner program.
# Medsphere raised $12m to support ongoing development and expansion in open source health IT.
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Aug
07
2009
Monty Widenius dissects MySQL’s dual license. Intuit moves to the EPL. And more.
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# Monty Widenius blogged about the apparent changes to the dual licensing of MySQL.
# Intuit announced that its code.intuit.com will be moving from CPL to EPL.
# Matt Asay asked whether Google’s open source advocacy might be a scheme to lower the value of patents.
# Vision Mobile’s Andreas Constantinou explained the differences between open source …
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Jun
19
2009
Red Hat betas Enterprise Virtualization, partners with HP for SOA. And more.
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# Red Hat announced that its Enterprise Virtualization portfolio of products is now available for beta testing.
# Red Hat collaborated with HP on SOA.
# David Megginson published mixing GPL and non-GPL: a different perspective. A new take on the MySQL/MariaDB storage engine debate.
# UK Government CIO shed some light on “G-Cloud” plans and how the new open source policy provides an opportunity.
# WAZI: …
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Jun
06
2009
Why was Teradata able to become the leader of data warehousing at the super high-end (e.g. greater than 25 TB’s)? Why was Netezza only the second pure-play data warehousing company to go public by focusing on the 10 – 25 TB range of opportunities? Why did Oracle after so many years of denial finally announce a joint hardware / software product for data warehousing with HP, the Exadata data warehouse server? Why did Microsoft acquire DATAllegro, one of the earlier data warehousing appliances? Why are there now dozens of data warehouse appliances available on the market today, and – more importantly – how should a customer choose which one to purchase?
In all these cases, the vendors have listened to the market and concluded that the most optimal way to serve the customer is through a true data warehouse appliance. Given that there are so many flavors of appliances, though, here are some things to …
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Feb
25
2009
In 1809, a hero in America's Revolutionary War, General John Stark, was forced to decline an invitation to a military reunion due to ill health. He sent a toast to be read in his absence that began, "Live Free or Die." That phrase is now the official motto of the American state of New Hampshire (where Stark lived), known for a fierce sense of independence (and no income taxes).
Hold that thought for a moment.
Today, we're announcing the single biggest and most important OEM/distribution agreement Sun's ever signed for the open source Solaris operating system - through which we'll be joining forces with the world's largest supplier of high volume servers, Hewlett Packard. As a result of the deal, Solaris gains tier 1 status, …
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Feb
13
2009
The open source vendor definition debate rumbles on. How open source could save the US government $3.7bn. Red Hat plans MASS migration to JBoss. Open source content management invades the US. Exploiting the attribution loophole in the GPLv3. And more.
Definition debate rumbles on
Roberto Galoppini joined the open source vendor definition
debate, with a perspective looking at the impact on community
engagement, and also caught up with David Dennis, senior director
of product marketing at Groundwork, about the company’s strategy,
noting that not all open source core vendors are created equal.
Meanwhile Tarus Balog of OpenNMS, who …
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Oct
31
2008
Sun and Sourcefire report Q3 results. SpringSource elected to JCP executive committee. Alfresco launches Enterprise 3.0. How to go from 0 to 700 customers in one year. Open sourcing Jonathan Schwartz’s ponytail. And more.
Press releases
Sun Microsystems Reports Final Results for the
First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Sun Microsystems
Sourcefire Announces 2008 Third Quarter Results Sourcefire
Sourcefire Adopts Stockholder Rights Plan Sourcefire
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