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With rumors of a takeover by IBM swirling around him, Sun Microsytems’ chairman Scott McNealy tried to pitch a room of customers this week on the idea that Sun is a wily innovator whose software and hardware are far less costly than proprietary solutions from Oracle and, yes, IBM. But McNealy had little [...]

Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL)’s chief Linux technologist, Wim Coekaerts, said Oracle is making an important contribution to Linux reliability by extensively testing the Oracle database system on the open source operating system. And he has some free advice for competitor Red Hat (NYSE: RHT).
Oracle reports all bugs it finds and bug fixes that it makes to [...]

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Reading the excellent analysis of Arjen Lentz, founder of MySQL training company Open Query, of what the open-source database leader MySQL is (and isn’t) makes me wish that Oracle would have discovered MySQL as a complement, rather than as a competitor, several years ago.
MySQL’s is the database software of choice for the Web, [...]

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Cloudera is the quintessential Silicon Valley story.
Three of the top engineers from Google, Yahoo and Facebook have teamed up with an ex-Oracle executive to tackle the problems inherent in quickly analyzing big piles of data. On Monday, they’re revealing a commercial product based on the open source software Hadoop, which provides the analytical [...]

A comment by frequent contributor JesperFrimann last week caused me to take a closer look at licensing practices among major commercial database vendors other than Microsoft.
All three of the big guys (Oracle, IBM, and Sybase) follow the same basic sales model:
1. publish nominal list pricing only;
2. obfuscate package names, [...]

Techflash suggests that big technology companies like Oracle and Microsoft may re-enter the mergers and acquisitions market in 2009, scooping up companies at low valuations. This bodes well for an industry bent on recovery, but it probably won’t help open source.
In an economy that is increasingly kind to open source, open-source companies are seeing revenues [...]

The incoming president of an alliance of open-source companies hopes he can persuade big-name proprietary ISVs to join rivals in his group to further interoperability.
Recently named Open Solutions Alliance president Anthony Gold told The Reg that his goal is to take the two-year-old organization to the “next level” by turning it into a destination for [...]

One big trend we saw last year was companies trying to “get right” by open source.
Even Microsoft and Oracle sought accommodation with the open source imperative.
But this has also existed in the open source movement. We saw it at SugarCRM. We see it in companies with whom, on the surface, open source has no quibble.
Getting [...]