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Despite the occasional brush with critics in the open source community, Sun continues to maintain that it will ship all of its software assets as open source (though in some cases the timeframes are not clear).

One of the prominent areas where the company is following through on this at the moment is with its storage offerings.

A recent interview with Sun's Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green (published yesterday in eWeek) makes for fascinating reading, especially in conjunction with the dustup over Sun's announcement that some MySQL enhancements will not be open-sourced.

Understanding how Sun views open source goes a long way toward explaining what's going on, and telegraphing its future strategy.

For many years, MySQL has been the best-known open-source relational database. Sun bought it and the company earlier this year, leading many to wonder what the business strategy would be. This week, the CEO of MySQL revealed part of that strategy -- the introduction of proprietary add-ons that will only be distributed to commercial customers.

Reaction in the open-source world has been quite negative. What does this shift mean for MySQL?

Gartner is out with a new report that predicts that soon all businesses will use open source software--although there are some open source warnings too.....

Wired has an interesting item on supercharging Canon digital cameras using open source software.....

When asked about the future direction of Sun Microsystems, one of the company's new managing directors highlighted open source as a key focus.....

Dojo has stabilized and released a new version of its open source Ajax toolkit, backed by IBM, Sun and AOL....