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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 …
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.
…[Read more]Sun reports second quarter results. Compiere reports 216% quarterly revenue growth. EnterpriseDB grows customers accounts. Hyperic and JasperSoft team up on BI for IT. Microsoft embraces Apache but resists GPL. And more.
Sun up or Sun down?
There was some comparatively good news from Sun, which reported a net loss of $209m on revenue down
10.9% at $3.2bn. As Sam Diaz at ZDnet notes,
however, “after excluding one-time costs related to recent
layoffs and other costs, the company posted a profit of 15 cents
per share, beating analysts’ expectations of a 10 cent loss”. In
regular trading, shares of Sun were up more than 5%.
Matt Asay noted the impact open …
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