Android Oracle, Google and Java - Oh My A follow-up to this post, now that some additional information is coming out. James Gosling has made another interesting post with some historical information, including the fact that as a result of an IBM lawsuit some Sun engineers made an unofficial game out of seeing how ridicuouls of a
Android Oracle Sues Google For Patent And Copyright Infringement In one of its first big moves with the assets it's acquired as part of the Sun acquisition, Oracle has just announce that it's Suing Google for patent and copyright infringement. From the press release: "In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle&
Open Source The Post-Oracle Sun Exodus It appears Oracle is starting to experience some high profile departures from ex-Sun employees now that the acquisition has been finalized. First came Tim Bray: Today I resigned from Sun/Oracle — the official integration date here in Canada is March 1st, so I won’t ever have actually been
MySQL Oracle Sun Merger Closes As I'm sure you've heard by now, the Oracle acquisition of Sun has closed. From MySQL and Java to OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org and more; it's difficult to understate the potential impact this will have on the Open Source community. Many people are skeptical of
Linux Red Hat: Bad economy is good for Open Source From a post by Matt Asay: Well, on Wednesday Red Hat announced fiscal first-quarter revenue of $174 million, up 11 percent from the prior year. Subscription revenue was up 14 percent year over year to $148.8 million. The company's total deferred revenue balance is now $567.
Linux Oracle Sun Acquisition Musings A little time has past since the announcement that Oracle would acquire Sun. While there are still many unanswered questions, I thought I'd post a quick update on the topic. The first topic I'll cover is the Sun hardware business. From a recent interview with Larry
Linux Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems With rumors of an IBM acquisition still swirling, early this morning Oracle announced that it is acquiring Sun for roughly $7.4 billion. From a CNET article: Oracle and Sun announced Monday that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.
Linux Linux in the Enterprise: The Journey, Milestones and What's Ahead (Liveblog) Edward Screven - Chief Corporate Architect at Oracle. * In the late 90's they were looking for an OS to recommend to their clients. They immediately ruled out Windows for a variety of reasons, both technical and political/personal. It came down to BSD and Linux. They went with Linux.
LinuxQuestions.org New LQ Infrastructure - First snag hit As I previously mentioned, I've been working on moving LQ to an entirely new and updated infrastructure. Everything was going smooth and the project was actually ahead of schedule. The LQ Wiki, LQ ISO and LQ Radio are already being served by the new machines. I decided to
Open Source Oracle mulls vote on open source at upcoming shareholders meeting II As a follow up to this post, Jonas just informed me that 127,717,018 shares voted in favor of the proposal. From his email: In the end, we received the support of 127,717,018 shares. That is 3.58% of the vote and approximately $2.8 billion in
Open Source Oracle mulls vote on open source at upcoming shareholders meeting I've been chatting with Jonas Kron recently about an issue that Matt just pointed out: On Friday, November 2, Oracle will convene its shareholder meeting. As part of that meeting, this year it's supposed to consider an open-source friendly proposal which, for a variety of
Linux Unbreakable Linux: The untold story Mike Olson, vice president of Embedded Technologies at Oracle, recently posted an interesting entry on his blog about Unbreakable Linux (via Matt). The article details why RHEL was chosen and how Oracle contributes to Linux. Keep in mind that Mike works for Oracle, but via the Sleepycat aquisition. He knows
Linux Oracle Linux adopters labelled 'idiots' Just ran across this odd story over at ZNNet AU. From the article: One of the first converts to Oracle's support for Linux has revealed the public backlash it has endured since their decision to drop Red Hat. Melbourne company Opes Prime Stockbroking told ZDNet Australia that in
Linux Open Source Business Models: A Wall Street Look at a Wild 2006 and the Prospects for Even More Fun in 2007 Stephen Walli points to a presentation from EclipseCon by Brent Williams entitled: "Open Source Business Models: A Wall Street Look at a Wild 2006 and the Prospects for Even More Fun in 2007". The presentation is fairly long at 48 slides, but contains some very good information. You
Linux Ballmer repeats threats against Linux Novell execs must cringe when they see things like this: Steve Ballmer has reissued Microsoft's patent threat against Linux, warning open-source vendors that they must respect his company's intellectual property. In a no-nonsense presentation to New York financial analysts last week, Microsoft's
Linux Interview: Jens Axboe A fantastic in-depth interview with Jens Axboe has been posted over at KernelTrap. If you're interested in block layer stuff, schedulers or the kernel development process in general, this is a must read. If you don't learn something from each and every KernelTrap interview that
Linux MySQL AB - a new product and an IPO Speaking of Open Source companies that understand their market and core strengths, MySQL AB has also been on a tear. Earlier this week, the company announced its MySQL Enterprise Unlimited program. From the press release: MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today unveiled
Linux Novell: Hubert Mantel Returns, Jeremy Allison Resigns Quite a bit going on at Novell over the last couple days. We have Hubert Mantel returning and Jeremy Allison resigning. For those that don't remember, Hubert is one of the Suse founders and had resigned from Novell a little over a year ago, saying: ""Too
Linux Oracle questions GPL open sourced Java It appears that Oracle is siding with IBM on the issue of the Open Source license for Java. From the article: Steven Harris told Computer Business Review he believed the release of the Java code as open source would be beneficial, but questioned whether the Santa Clara, California-based company
Linux Oracle Linux, Distributions, Redux It's interesting to read what a well known and well respected MySQL Employee has to say, not only about Oracle Linux specifically but about the state of Linux distributions in general. A couple snippets: First, I'm really unhappy with the state of Linux distributions today. Its
Linux Red Hat Response to Oracle and Microsoft/Novell Moves Here's a response from Red Hat on the recent upheaval in the Linux world. My take? Half really good points, half disingenuous and/or ridiculous. First, the good points. Last time I looked, we were still in ring, and we are still standing. The big mistakes companies and
Linux Responses from around the Linux Community Here are some responses from around the Linux community on the recent Novell deal with Microsoft. Eben Moglen thinks the deal may actually violate the GPL: It's possible that Thursday's deal between Microsoft and Novell could conflict with a provision in the General Public License (GPL)
Linux CentOS: Oracle Linux Doesn't Measure Up An interesting Q&A with the CentOS team about their thoughts on Unbreakable Linux. From the article: "Oracle [has] seen what has been achieved by projects such as CentOS, and [has] effectively copied the idea, as they are entitled to under the GPL," said Lance Davis, one
Linux Novell and Microsoft Collaborate As if the recent Oracle Red Hat talk wasn't interesting enough, Novell today announced that they will be collaborating with Microsoft. While some people seem to think this may have been a reaction to the Oracle announcement, I can't see any way this was thrown together
Linux Oracle and Unbreakable Linux III This is turning out to be a hotter topic than I had anticipated, so I figured I post some additional thoughts I have. First, I'll expand on some comments I made in previous posts. Looking at the numbers it seems that Oracle accounts for about 15% of the
