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Oracle's and Sun's Top Guns Reassure the Sun Faithful

The European Commission's months-long deliberation over Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems is still ongoing, causing many observers to conclude that Europe's pokey investigation is hurting Sun. There are signs, for example, that MySQL customers are jumping ship for Sun competitors, such as IBM. Former MySQL CEO M?rten Mickos has written Neelie Kroes, Europe's Competition Commissioner, a letter saying as much. While Oracle itself has been relatively quiet about the delay, Sunday night at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, both Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy addressed an audience and vowed together that Sun's technologies will continue and improve under Oracle.


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Mickos letter to EU: Approve Oracle-Sun deal. Former MySQL CEO M?rten Mickos has written a note accusing the EU of doing a disservice to MySQL.

Seeking a Stallman for open source. Who should be the spokesperson?

Oracle OpenWorld to shed light on the company's Java plans. Application development will figure prominently at the conference.

Microsoft and Novell say relationship is exceeding expectations. Microsoft has sold $220 million worth of Suse Linux subscriptions for Novell.



Upcoming Java App Store Could Dwarf Others: Is Oracle Behind It?

Online app stores have become quite a phenomenon, in and out of the open source arena. Apple's app store made it the largest digital download retailer of all, and Microsoft has an app store in the works to challenge Apple's. The Android Market is teeming with useful applications. However, as Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz details in this blog post, Sun's upcoming App Store for Java could become the biggest app store of all. Schwartz also says this about it: ...and this time, it's all about revenue and business opportunity. Does Oracle have anything to do with this?


As Oracle Becomes Java's Steward, It's Also a Big Player in Mobile Tech

When Oracle announced its intent to acquire Sun Microsystems, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Java is the single most important software we've ever acquired. Since he made that statement, though, there has been a lot of second-guessing regarding Oracle's true intent with Java. The DevXtra Editor's Blog, for example, suggests that ?as Oracle seeks to get a $1.5 billion contribution to its profits in its first year with Sun, Oracle may start pulling staff and funding from Sun Java projects that don't immediately contribute to the bottom line or at least show promise of contributing in the near future. While that's possible, I'm more inclined to believe that Oracle will extend much of what Sun has done with Java, and one big reason for that is that Java makes Oracle an important player in the fast-growing market for mobile technology.


At Zero Hour, Talks Break Down; IBM Walks Away from Sun

I can safely say when I covered the speculation that IBM and Sun were wrapping up the finer points of the acquisition Friday, I figured that if there was anything left to say come Monday, it would deal with idiosyncracies of the agreed-upon terms. Even though the announcement is imminent reports were not officially sanctioned by IBM or Sun, there was no reason to believe the sources were dishonest about the information they gave. It still doesn't seem there was dishonesty, or that these sources made wildly off-base assumptions about what was to come. It seemed as though IBM's purchase of Sun Microsystems was set to proceed, until late Saturday evening, when IBM and Sun broke off negotiations, according to Bloomberg.

There had been much debate about how an IBM acquisition would affect Sun's open source efforts. As those questions move even further into the hypothetical realm, far more troubling questions loom about Sun's next potential buyer -- or its choice to weather the storm on its own.



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Mozilla solicits user feedback with Test Pilot.....

Linus Torvalds on regression, laziness and having his code rejected.....

Sun's open source Java move gets mixed reviews.....

Linux KDE 4.2 RC1, in photos.....

What's new in Firefox 3.1 beta 2?.....

San Francisco's OSBC conference slated for March.....



Interview: Ken Drachnik on Sun's GlassFish OSS App Server

Last week, as part of a dual-promotion between OStatic and Sun Microsystems, OStatic introduced a program through which Java developers can get a year of free hosting for applications powered by the open source GlassFish Application Server and MySQL--both from Sun.? GlassFish is an app server project for the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) platform, and is based on source code donated by Sun and Oracle. Its servlet container employs a derivative of Apache Tomcat. We checked in with Ken Drachnik, marketing manager for open source software infrastructure products at Sun and a co-founder of GlassFish, about GlassFish and open source issues.


JavaFX: A Bright Future on Open Source-Based Mobile Devices?

Sun Microsystems is out with an answer to Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight Rich Internet Application tools: JavaFX. At the JavaOne show in San Francisco today, Sun's head of software, Rich Green, discussed what to expect from the new offering. Green claims JavaFX will arrive on 91 percent of desktops, 85 percent of cell phones, and 100 percent of Blu-ray players--no small claims. While I'm not positive it will have that bright a future on so many platforms, Green showed JavaFX running on Google's Android mobile platform, which is Linux-based. Here, there could be promise.



Sun Buys VirtualBox Virtualization Software

Original Post authored by Stacey Higginbotham on 2/13/2008 on GigaOm
If only it were green. Thatﾒs what I found myself thinking after Sun Microsystems said itﾒs paid an undisclosed amount for Innotek, the makers of open-source desktop virtualization software VirtualBox Virtual Machine.


Sun Buys MySQL for $1B and Wall Street Mourns

Original Post authored by Stacey Higginbotham on 1/16/2008 on GigaOM
Sun Microsystems said today it would pay $1 billion to buy privately held open-source database maker MySQL, a move that strengthens Sunﾒs ability to offer an alternative to proprietary software.