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Oracle has a Sun spot

Posted September 28, 2011 - 3:23 pm

Oracle is pushing itself into a corner, a fantastic money-making corner, but a corner nonetheless.
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Java creator Gosling bails on new Google job to play with boats

Posted August 31, 2011 - 1:34 pm

Java creator James Gosling, whose resignation from Oracle was the key event in the Java community's rebellion against Oracle's plans for it, has now quit Oracle to work on a company that builds self-directed robotic underwater explorers and the data clouds to connect them.
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Oracle may be righteous vs. SAP, but open sourcers call it the oppressor

Posted November 10, 2010 - 1:40 pm

Since buying Sun in 2009, Oracle has made huge changes to Sun properties, among them changing open-source projects in ways that have the best developers bailing.
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Oracle ~~strikes~~ is stricken by blow for open Java

Posted October 25, 2010 - 6:44 pm

A developer Java gurus call a Java Guru has resigned from Java's governing body because, he said in a scathing exit letter, Oracle has replaced the community structure guiding Java development into a puppet government wh
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Microsoft Leaps to Confront the Google and Zoho of 2007

Posted October 19, 2010 - 4:34 pm

Four years after promising to launch an online version of Office, Microsoft is ready with more promises -- that Office 365 will ship next year, for abotu $6/month/user; proudly treads ground packed down by pioneer boots marked Google, Zoho, Yahoo and Sun
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OpenOffice.org: Still Waiting for Oracle

Posted September 3, 2010 - 1:01 pm

For those who were hoping for some sort of direction from Oracle concerning OpenOffice.org during this week's conference in Budapest, you're going to be sadly disappointed.
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Friday the 13th, Part II: Oracle Officially Ends OpenSolaris

Posted August 13, 2010 - 3:18 pm

An OpenSolaris developer leaks an apparent Oracle internal memo that details the end of the line for the OpenSolaris Project.
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The Immortality of Open Source Projects

Posted June 23, 2010 - 8:48 am

How one company stepped into the debris of the Sun/Oracle acquisition, rescued some valuable open source projects, and turned them into a very successful business.
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Oracle: Open Up or Watch Sun Set

Posted April 14, 2010 - 10:00 am

Last week's departure of James Gosling from Oracle marks another milestone in a worrying trend for Oracle's continued standing in the open source community. The solution may be something from which Oracle historically cringes: sharing. But if they don't, a lot of value they got from Sun will set forever.
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Patent Skirmishes Shed Light on Apple-HTC Suit

Posted March 10, 2010 - 2:45 pm

Former Sun CEO has revealed some interesting anecdotes about intellectual property scuffles with Apple and Microsoft. Which may tell us what's going to happen next with Apple v. HTC.
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OpenSolaris Appears Missing from Oracle-Sun Party

Posted January 27, 2010 - 4:31 pm

There is a lot of news coming out of Silicon Valley today, as Oracle and Sun host a five-hour marathon briefing on just how Oracle's approved acquisition of Sun will effect both companies' present and future customers.
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He said what? -- The oddly informative news quiz

Posted December 11, 2008 - 5:35 pm

Who isn't afraid of a little healthy debate, no matter how inflammatory? Who blew minds in 1968 with visions of a responsive computer? Who celebrated purified water by dancing on air? Who discovered that Mega-D is back and badder than ever? Think you know? Take the quiz already!
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