Red Hat invests in EnterpriseDB. The White House goes open source. And more.
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In other news…
# EnterpriseDB confirmed Red Hat investment, partnership.
# Whitehouse.gov migrated to Drupal, as well as …
[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 …
[Read more]A controversial issue in the UK this week is the BBC’s decision to invite the British National Party - the far-right, whites-only political party - to appear on Question Time, the BBC’s flagship political debate programme.
Critics fear that the move will legitimise the BNP’s far-right views, while the BBC has defended the invitation on the grounds that its role as a politically neutral public service broadcaster would be undermined if it excluded the BNP - which won its first European Parliament seats this year with an estimated million votes.
To me it is clear that no matter how abhorrent the BNP’s policies on certain issues may be the BBC has a duty to invite it to participate as it is a legitimately recognised political party. We live in a society …
[Read more]The complaints and concerns over Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems and open source MySQL database grew this week to calls for the acquisition, or at least the relatively small MySQL part of it, to be blocked. The Open Rights Group calling for such blockage was joined by none other than the father of the free software movement, Richard Stallman. However, I have to once again question how free and open are these free and open source software advocates? Is the movement and FOSS open to all (except Microsoft, Oracle or anyone else the Open Rights Group, Richard Stallman or any …
[Read more]Yesterday I attended CPOSC 2009. The conference was great. It was very well run, and I liked the sessions. I would definitely attend this conference again, and will recommend that Percona sponsor it next year. I attended the following talks:
And then of course I gave my own talk on Maatkit ( …
[Read more]Larry Ellison promises funds for MySQL, commits to community. The “open source vendor” debate in a nutshell. And more.
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# Larry Ellison promised MySQL will receive more money for development and research, while Oracle maintained that it is committed to Java and open source developer communities.
# GroundWork raised $5m series D funding from Canaan Partners, Mayfield, JAFCO Ventures and SAP Ventures.
# InformationWeek reported that Motorola has vacated …
[Read more]Funding for Engine Yard and DataSync. Red Hat and Microsoft joint support. And more.
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# Engine Yard raised $19m in Series C funding from the likes of Benchmark, DAG, Presidio and Amazon.
# Red Hat and Microsoft are now providing joint support for virtualization interoperability options.
# DataSync raised $1.2m and announced a partnership with SugarCRM.
# Simon Phipps began building a scorecard to …
[Read more]Patents. M&A. Adoption. Business strategies. And more.
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Patents
# Red Hat urged
the Supreme Court to to make clear that it excludes software from
patentability, while the SFLC and the FSF also filed briefs with the US Supreme Court
arguing against software patents.
Investment and M&A
# The WSJ …
At the Open World Forum event in Paris this morning I presented a quick overview of the state of free and open source software in 2009 and a look at the trends shaping FOSS into the next decade. The presentation was just 10 minutes rather than the 20 I had originally understood it to be, so I wanted to use the blog to expand a little on the discussion and my thinking.
War is over (if you want it)
Aside from the ongoing adoption of open source, one of the trends
that has defined FOSS in 2009 has been the numerous declarations …
