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Oracle's Larry Ellison Weighs in on Sun and the EU--and He Should

In a recent post called Another Day, Another Reason to Fret Over MySQL's Fate, I noted that the European Commission's drawn out review of Oracle's proposed Sun Microsystems merger is doing a disservice to Sun, MySQL, MySQL users and open source in general. That post also mentioned the fact that Oracle has been very mum about its intent for MySQL--and that intent is what the European Commission is focused on as it delays or possibly seeks to obstruct the merger. This is the sum total of what Oracle has had to say publicly about MySQL: MySQL will be an addition to Oracle's existing suite of database products. Wow, very informative.

Now, ZDNet and Barron's are reporting that Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison has a little more to say about the delay of the merger. He's not happy, and rightfully so.



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Q&A: Visa dips a toe into the Hadoop pool. The company's head of technology strategy weighs in on how it is using Hadoop's powerful data crunching capabilities.

London Stock Exchange platform acquisition ignites open source war of words. Its Microsoft-based tech infrastructure is being replaced by open source tools.

How GNOME and KDE spend their money. Here's a comparison of their quarterly reports.

Does Oracle matter to open source? Once it acquires Sun, Oracle will be the largest sponsor of open source projects that people use every day.

BonitaSoft gets funding. The provider of open source Business Process Management (BPM) software announced a first round of funding of $3 million from Ventech and Auriga Partners.



Another Day, Another Reason to Fret Over MySQL's Fate

Here we are in mid-September, and it's hard to believe that Oracle announced its plan to acquire Sun Microsystems all the way back in April, but the deal still hasn't gone through. While the U.S. Department of Justice quickly cleared the deal, the European Commission is continuing a drawn out investigation into it, and has expressed concerns about the fate of open source database MySQL.? As we noted when the proposed acquisition was first announced, it does raise many valid questions about MySQL's future. That said, though, I have to agree with Matt Asay that the EU's extended? obstruction of the deal threatens to send MySQL's customers to IBM and other competitors while doing little to no good for MySQL. This week, there is evidence of even more confusion and possibly dire consequences for MySQL.


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Users nervous about Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Concerns also linger over the fate of other Sun technologies such as Solaris and Java.

Eucalyptus CTO discusses open source clouds. He discusses Eucalyptus' first commercial product--an open source private cloud platform that supports Amazon AWS APIs and leverages VMware.

Alpha 680 Android netbook review. One of the first Android netbooks has some rough edges, but shows promise.

Mozilla prepares for SeaMonkey 2.0 release. THe second beta of its Internet app suite arrives, final version coming next month.

Linux webserver botnet pushes malware. A security researcher has discovered a cluster of infected Linux servers that have been corralled into a special ops botnet.



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Sprint needs a hit. Sprint, the beleaguered mobile carrier, announced that it will start selling HTC Hero, a touchscreen phone based on Google?s Android OS, on Oct. 11th for $179.

Google Android: Is the party over? It's open source, hardware-agnostic, and developer-friendly, but why are developers unhappy?

Which licence is best: EPL, GPL or BSD? Open source pundits recently held a smackdown debating the merits of various open source licenses, and here were the highlights.

Useful Ubuntu links. After helping a friend switch to Ubuntu, a veteran compiles a list of helpful sites to know about.

Red Hat CEO: Choose flexibility or Larry Ellison. At Red Hat Summit, CEO Jim Whitehurst took on Oracle's inflexibility as his company launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4.