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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.


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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.



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.



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First look at stable Firefox 3.5. Mozilla is inviting everyone to download the finalized new version.

An open source GSM network. It was spotted at a Dutch hacker convention, and proves that powerful networks can have grassroots beginnings.

End of days for Sun. Only nine years ago, Sun's stock was at $257 per share, with a market cap of almost $100 billion--but those days are gone.

Impressions of the T-Mobile MyTouch Android phone. The voice recognition for voice searches stands out.

Is Chrome OS too Orwellian or Big Brother-ish? Not only is Google open to almost everything we do on the Internet, but it will also be the only thing sitting between users and hardware with Chrome OS.



Community Leadership Summit: Days Away in San Jose

As Kristin covered in April, the upcoming OSCON conference will be immediately preceded by an unconference called the Community Leadership Summit, to take place July 18th and 19th in San Jose, California. The event is free for anyone to attend, although if you're planning to attend you should pre-register. There are some scheduled presentations, panel discussions, and social gatherings planned, but much of the event will consist of free-form discussion on what it takes to build a thriving, productive community around an open source project. More details are emerging on the participants, and it looks like a solid event.


VirtualBox 3.0 Runs Multiple Operating Systems Concurrently

As JKOnTheRun reports, Sun Microsystems is out with the third version of its free virtualization software VirtualBox, downloadable here. You can take a screenshot tour here. VirtualBox 3.0 now supports Open GL 2.0 as well as Direct 3D 8/9 in Windows. Also included is the ability for guest operating systems to use up to 32 virtual CPUs. You can view the substantial changelog here. VirtualBox might not be as glitzy, glamorous or functional for games as solutions from Parallels or VMware, but you can?t beat the price, says the JKOnTheRun post. It?s definitely a must-see if you want to run multiple operating systems at the same time on a Windows, Mac or Linux machine.


If An Open Source App Rises in a Company, Does Anybody Hear?

When an open source application or platform gains traction in a company, does the I.T. department necessarily drive that? Not always, as Rich Green, Executive VP of Software at Sun Microsystems,? confirmed for us in our interview with him. We regularly meet with CIOs of large companies who had no idea that their staffs downloaded and deployed MySQL, he told us. Seeing grassroots adoption of MySQL is one of the most gratifying parts of my job, he added. Early results from a small survey done by OpenLogic appear to support the idea that this often happens because of no formal procedures for tracking open source usage.


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.


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