Novell sold to Attachmate. Barnes & Noble throws the book at Microsoft. And more.
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# Novell closed its acquisition by Attachmate and its patent sale to CPTN.
# Attachmate’s CEO discussed the company’s plans for SUSE Linux.
# Barnes & Noble …
[Read more]Nuxeo contributes its Core to Eclipse. Nokia bets its future on Windows Phone. And more.
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# Nuxeo is contributing its Nuxeo Core content repository technology to the Eclipse Foundation.
# Nokia adopted Windows Phone as smartphone platform, Symbian becomes a franchise platform, MeeGo reserved for market exploration.
# Rackspace acquired Anso Labs, the developer behind NASA’s contribution to OpenStack. …
[Read more]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]Sun updates Java platform. Red Hat open sources SPICE. And more.
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# Sun has released Java Platform EE 6, Glassfish 3, and NetBeans 6.8.
# Red Hat released its …
[Read more]Objectional statements on Oracle-Sun-MySQL. How Google uses Linux. And more.
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Objectional statements
The European Commission communicated its Statement of Objections
to Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems to those
involved, prompting Oracle to claim the EC has a profound misunderstanding of
database competition and open source, the US DoJ to reiterate its position
that Oracle’s acquisition of Sun is unlikely to be
anticompetitive and an EC spokesperson to explain that concern
over …
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: …
[Read more]All change at Sun. A new CEO at Zend. Ingres enjoys revenue up 32%. Purple Labs raises funding. Is open source a danger to Microsoft or will Danger bring open source to Microsoft? (Not) open source food. And more.
It’s a good week for business card
printers
There was a rush of new appointment and departure announcements
this week. As already noted today, Sun has confirmed the
departure of Marten Mickos as Sun is combining its Software
Infrastructure organization with its Database Group to form a
unified open source product group under the leadership of Karen
Tegan Padir, vice president of MySQL & Software
Infrastructure.
Earlier in the week Monty Widenius confirmed that he has left Sun, along …
[Read more]Red Hat gets a new VP. rPath appoints former Red Hat COO as chairman. Ubuntu Launchpad to go open source. Open source Windows. SCO formally files for Chapter 11. And more.
Official announcements
Industry Veteran Greg Symon Joins Red Hat as Vice
President and General Manager of North American Sales Red Hat
rPath Welcomes Ex-Red Hat COO Tim Buckley rPath
Liferay Portal Released in Enterprise Edition LifeRay
[Read more]MySQL 5.1 reaches GA. But is it ready for production deployments? SpringSource launches commercial version of Apache Tomcat. BusinessWeek focuses on open source business models and open source in the downturn. And more.
Official announcements
MySQL 5.1 Downloads — Generally Available (GA) release
for production use Sun Microsystems
SpringSource Launches tc Server; Continues to Redefine Application Server Market SpringSource
Open Solutions Alliance Appoints New President, Announces New Leadership Team Open Solutions Alliance
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Sun announced Project WebSynergy two weeks ago, during JavaOne, and, since then, the team has written a number of Posts@BSC; I'll try to start catching up. A recent post explains how to configure WebSynergy to use MySQL; the detailed instructions are at here, and there is also an associated Screencast. Thanks to … |