Reaction to Marten Mickos’s departure from Sun. On open letter to President Obama. Lots of announcements from Sun, the LIMO Foundation and WS02. Mozilla offers to help EC investigation of Microsoft. Black Duck raises funding and gets a new CEO. The state of Red Hat. And more.
Mickos fallout
Kaj Arno maintained that “MySQL’s culture and business
philosophy will live on in Sun.” He added: “In fact, you could
say MySQL now becomes mainstream at Sun. Former MySQLers continue
in key positions, in some cases with a mandate to generalise and
apply MySQL related learnings on other open source products.”
For example, Charles Babcock …
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