Topics for this podcast:
*Open source in consumer devices
*VMware-Zimbra deal highlights open source, cloud
*A capitalist’s guide to open source licensing
*Latest on Oracle-Sun-MySQL, M&A implications
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EC approves Oracle-Sun. Google patents MapReduce. And more.
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EC approves Oracle-Sun
The European Commission cleared Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun
Microsystems. While Larry Ellison is set to unveil Oracle’s
Sun strategy on January 27th, Monty Widenius said he will go to the
Court of First Instance to appeal the decision.
# Pro-open source political party formed in Hungary.
# Google …
[Read more]We are proud to announce the 4th public Beta of MySQL Workbench 5.2.
We want to thank all the people who have been testing MySQL
Workbench 5.2 alphas and betas and taking the time to file bugs
and provide valuable feedback. We have fixed many bugs since last
release and worked on some other details as well. Also, there is
new platform included with this beta – CentOS 5.4 Linux Packages
(RPMs)
NOTE: We have a known issue with Centos SSH Tunnel
support that we are working on so avoid that for now.
This build includes fixes for 65 bugs – 7 P1, 26 P2 and 32 P3.
MySQL Workbench 5.2 Beta 3 provides:
If you are a current user of MySQL Query Browser or MySQL Administrator, we look forward to your feedback on all the new capabilities we are delivering in a …
[Read more]Monty turns his attention to the East. The value of JBoss to Red Hat. And more.
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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
# Monty Widenius predicted that the EU will clear Oracle-Sun “any moment”, turning his attention to Russia and China.
# Meanwhile the release candidate of MariaDB 5.1 is now …
[Read more]VMware confirms Zimbra buy. Facebook sponsors Apache Foundation. And more.
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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
# VMware confirmed its acquisition of Zimbra from Yahoo.
# Facebook became a gold sponsor of the Apache Foundation and outlined its …
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Since Ubuntu 8.04 aka Hardy Heron, I've had issues
with every new release. As Ubuntu evolves into being a viable
desktop OS alternative, its complexity has been growing and with
the new and improved looks new challenges arise. This bug in
particular has been very difficult to diagnose and I can't
imagine anyone without enough Linux experience to overcome it on
their own, so I decided to summarize the steps I took to fix it
... and vent my frustration at the end.
The SymptomI came across the issue for the first time while
trying Ubuntu's Karmic Netbook remix. After overcoming the
typical Broadcom wifi driver, Network Manager would
connect, but Firefox would fail to load the web pages 90%
of the time. Using ping in the command line worked just
fine. Maybe I needed to update the software packages to get the
latest patches, surprise, apt-get was having similar
problems and timing out. So the problem …
I ran into an interesting issue when installing Wordpress on my re-installed server, I could not get a database connection during installation. I added some debugging and discovered that I had a "Can't connect to MySQL server on" error returned after the call to mysql_connect() in PHP.
To check the source of the issue I then tried to connect on the command-line using the mysql client, which occurred successfully, confirming that I was using the correct credentials and host address (this was a remote MySQL server).
I next created a test PHP script with a simple mysql_connect() call, and executed it with "php test.php" from the command-line, which was also successful.
Finally I accessed test.php through a browser, where again the connection failed.
So I was dealing with a situation where it was Apache in particular that was unable to connect to the remote MySQL server. Thanks to …
[Read more]Regular visitors to the 451 CAOS Theory blog will be well aware of The 451 Group’s CAOS (Commercial Adoption of Open Source) research service and our CAOS long-form reports.
They are probably less aware of the open source coverage that The 451 Group provides on a day-to-day and week-to-week basis, however, and I thought it would be worthwhile to provide some examples of The 451 Group’s ongoing open source coverage by highlighting a few recent reports.
The company’s core services are 451 Market Insight Service, which delivers daily insight into emerging enterprise IT markets, and 451 TechDealmaker, a forward-looking weekly …
[Read more]Eclipse adds OSGi server. VMware-Zimbra deal due today? And more.
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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
# VMware’s SpringSource proposed that its dm Server OSGi-based app server become an Eclipse.org community project, while SAP proposed the Graphiti project.
# All …
[Read more]A recent pitch from the folks opposing Oracle’s ownership of MySQL via acquisition of Sun Microsystems got me thinking. The plea, ‘Oracle can have Sun, but not MySQL’ may make sense to some, but to me it speaks to the irony of closing out Oracle or any company or anyone from open source. Upon further reflection and given 2010 is off to a roaring pace of M&A, I also began to wonder what the impact of the ‘Save MySQL’ campaign could be on open source in M&A, particularly if it was to successfully derail the acquisition or somehow decouple MySQL from Sun under Oracle?
What would it mean to carve out the open source projects, components, teams and support from companies involved in mergers and acquisitions over …
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