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More Mudslinging in the MySQL Debate

It looks like fretting over the future of MySQL has reached a fever pitch. As we've reported before, MySQL has been losing customers to competitors such as IBM as the European Commission stalls the proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. MySQL founder Michael 'Monty' Widenius and founder of the MySQL business, has suggested that Oracle should resolve antitrust concerns over its proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun by committing to sell MySQL to a suitable third party. Widenius' missive on the recommendation is online here. In it, he says EU's antitrust regulator is absolutely right to be concerned about the acquisition but adds that Sun [shouldn't] suffer much longer.


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.


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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Oracle gets go-ahead to buy Sun Microsystems. BBC News reports on the green light for the $7.4 billion deal.

How Moonlight 2.0 fits into Novell's Linux and open source plans. Now that Novell's Mono open source project has released the beta version of its Moonlight 2.0 code, what lies ahead?

Top 5 Linux video editing apps. Avidemux is a simple choice, and Cinelerra is very advanced.

PHP Toolkit for ADO.Net Data Services open sourced. Microsoft has introduced an open source project to bridge PHP and the company's .Net programming model.

LucidGaze for Lucene debuts. Lucid Imagination, which supports open source Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies, has delivered LucidGaze for Lucene, a free monitoring tool for installations using the Java Lucene search library.



Sun Execs Debut Java App Store

Today at Sun Microsystems' JavaOne conference, CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Vice President and Sun Fellow James Gosling unveiled the beta version of Sun's new Java App Store, which you can visit here. As we've reported, Sun foresees it reaching many millions of users of Java applications, and the company hopes developers will fill it with useful Java applications. Although, applications at the store will be free in the beta trial, Sun's goal is also to get significant revenues from the store. Here's more on what Schwartz and Gosling said and showed on stage.


OpenSolaris Arrives in a New Version

In conjunction with its CommunityOne event, Sun Microsystems has announced a new version of its OpenSolaris operating system. Dubbed OpenSolaris 2009.06, it features networking improvements, storage management and virtualization features. Here's more on what's under the hood, and how Sun will proceed with a free open source version of OpenSolaris, and a paid version featuring new lower support fees.


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?


Oracle's Plans for Solaris on SPARC: Good News for Linux?

Oracle has released a PDF transcript of an interview with CEO Larry Ellison regarding its plans following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. While the interview doesn't delve into the many questions surrounding what Oracle will do with Sun's open source products and initiatives, it does make very clear that Oracle will retain and extend Sun's hardware business, focusing on designing hardware and software to work together. That's going to be a complicated proposition for Oracle, and, as one observer notes, it may be good news for Linux.


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.


Interview: Karen Tegan Padir, MySQL VP, On This Week's MySQL Conference

As news and analysis about the future of MySQL under Oracle made the rounds this week, the annual MySQL Conference and Expo also took place in Silicon Valley. New versions of MySQL arrived and were announced, and we asked Karen Tegan Padir, Sun's VP of MySQL and Software Infrastructure, several questions about where MySQL and open source are headed. While Oracle's plans may be different from Sun's, and the acquisition wasn't up for discussion, Karen shed some light on what's important in the new versions, and how Sun wants to keep MySQL's direction simple.


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