Pin ItYou've probably seen the big news in the Open Source world already. Oracle is hijacking Red Hat's Linux distribution and will ship a version named Unbreakable Linux, undercutting Red Hat's support pricing. Thanks for doing all the work Red Hat, we'll take it from here. To me, it appears that Oracle cares nothing about [...]
Read More »Pin It Interesting developments keep happening in the Open Source world. "Oracle's Open-Source Shopping Spree" says that Oracle is negotiating to purchase the JBoss Group (JBoss Application Server), Zend (PHP), and Sleepy Cat (database). The acquisition is already announced on the Sleepy Cat page. This follows news that Oracle purchased InnoDB, the company behind a [...]
Read More »Pin It As I was looking over the keynote speakers for the OSBC conference next week, I was reminded once again of an interesting dichotomy in the open source community. The Who's Who of Open Source is often radically different depending on if you are looking at it from the business perspective or from the [...]
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