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120Oracle Finally Realises Some News is Good News?
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http://www.osnews.com/story/23662/Oracle_Finally_Realises_Some_News_is_Good_News_/For the first time since Sun was eaten by Oracle there was an email in my inbox today promising news and updates from the transition. As a valued member of the Sun community, we'd like to make sure you keep abreast of all the latest as we transition to Oracle. A lot of great things will be coming from the combination of Oracle and Sun and you'll want to stay informed! Here's your chance to keep up to date. Simply follow the link below and tell us a little more about yourself to receive news and information about products and events from Oracle. Maybe they are finally realising that we won't wait around forever. Time will tell if this will be substantial. The phrase 'a little slow on the uptake' leaps to mind.Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:29:55 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (David Adams)Oracle and SUN16http://www.osnews.com/topics/7Newsphilip.maySolaris, OpenSolaris, and the Oracle Wall of Secrecy
http://www.osnews.com/story/23469/Solaris_OpenSolaris_and_the_Oracle_Wall_of_Secrecy/
http://www.osnews.com/story/23469/Solaris_OpenSolaris_and_the_Oracle_Wall_of_Secrecy/Sometimes, Google's search engine does a better job of telling us about IT vendors than the vendors' own public relations and marketing machines, which are often there mostly to deflect questions rather than answer them. So it is with the next commercial and development iterations of Oracle's Solaris Unix operating system.Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:10:43 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (David Adams)Oracle and SUN44http://www.osnews.com/topics/7NewsJeremy PrinceOracle Starts Charging 90 USD Per User for ODF Plugin
http://www.osnews.com/story/23181/Oracle_Starts_Charging_90_USD_Per_User_for_ODF_Plugin/
http://www.osnews.com/story/23181/Oracle_Starts_Charging_90_USD_Per_User_for_ODF_Plugin/When Oracle announced its intentions to buy Sun Microsystems, many were worried about the future of Sun's large open source software portfolio, which includes things like Solaris, Java, MySQL, and more. It seems like Oracle is still struggling with what to do with the large body of products Sun entails; they've started charging 90 USD per user for the Microsoft Office ODF plugin.Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:24:50 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)Oracle and SUN95http://www.osnews.com/topics/7NewsGovernaMicrosoft: Oracle Will Take Us Back to 1970s Hell
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http://www.osnews.com/story/22931/Microsoft_Oracle_Will_Take_Us_Back_to_1970s_Hell/Microsoft's server and tools chief Bob Muglia has chided Oracle for peddling a return to '1960s computing', accusing its rival of going against industry trends and backing a dying and expensive operating-system architecture. "There are some things that Oracle is doing that I just shake my head at," Muglia told financial analysts attending the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, California, "I don't understand what's going to happen - what they think they're going to do with Sparc. I don't see how Sparc can live long-term."Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:09:36 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)Oracle and SUN24http://www.osnews.com/topics/7NewsSun CEO Announces Resignation on Twitter
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http://www.osnews.com/story/22833/Sun_CEO_Announces_Resignation_on_Twitter/Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, an advocate of Web 2.0, used Twitter early Thursday to announce his resignation. He was named CEO in 2006 as Sun faced a switch in strategic direction away from proprietary systems and toward open source code, including its valued Solaris 10 operating system. "Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it", he said in a tweet to his followers, reported the New York Times on its Web site at 1:12 a.m. Thursday. He added a bit of haiku: "Financial crisis, Stalled too many customers, CEO no more."Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:12:07 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)Oracle and SUN23http://www.osnews.com/topics/7NewsWhat's Next for Solaris, Linux at Oracle?
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http://www.osnews.com/story/22807/What_s_Next_for_Solaris_Linux_at_Oracle_/"Several of the concerns about Oracle's acquisition of Sun have revolved around how Unix technologies led by Sun would continue under the new ownership. As it turns out, Solaris users might not have much to worry about, as Oracle executives on Wednesday affirmed their commitment to preserving the efforts. In the case of Solaris, Oracle had already been a big supporter of the rival Linux operating system. Oracle has its own Enterprise Linux offering, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, the idea that Linux and Solaris are mutually exclusive is a false choice."Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:08:56 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)Oracle and SUN40http://www.osnews.com/topics/7NewsEU Approves USD 7.4 Billion Deal Between Oracle, Sun
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http://www.osnews.com/story/22772/EU_Approves_USD_7_4_Billion_Deal_Between_Oracle_Sun/"It's official: the European Commission has granted regulatory approval for Oracle to acquire Sun Microsystems for approximately USD 7.4 billion, without further conditions. In a statement released moments ago, Oracle says it expects unconditional approval from China and Russia as well and intends to close the transaction shortly."Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:19:58 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)Oracle and SUN0http://www.osnews.com/topics/7NewspoundsmackSun Releases VirtualBox 3.1, Adds Teleportation Feature
http://www.osnews.com/story/22557/Sun_Releases_VirtualBox_3_1_Adds_Teleportation_Feature/
http://www.osnews.com/story/22557/Sun_Releases_VirtualBox_3_1_Adds_Teleportation_Feature/Yesterday (today if you're in the US), Sun released the latest version of its virtualisation solution, VirtualBox 3.1. Among speed improvements and other smaller features, the biggest news is that Virtualox 3.1 introduces something called teleportation: you can move running VMs between machines - servers or clients, different architectures, different host operating systems, it doesn't matter to VirtualBox. Coincidentally, this reminded me of an idea I once had about moving running applications between machines.Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:45:16 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)Oracle and SUN49http://www.osnews.com/topics/7NewsStallman Urges EC to Stop Oracle Acquisition of Sun
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http://www.osnews.com/story/22383/Stallman_Urges_EC_to_Stop_Oracle_Acquisition_of_Sun/"Digital civil liberties organization Open Rights Group, Knowledge Ecology International and software developer Richard Stallman tell the EC in a letter that they are concerned about Oracle's possible squashing of competition in the database market by abandoning MySQL."Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:38:35 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)Oracle and SUN32http://www.osnews.com/topics/7Newsgoogle_ninjaOracle: We Will Not Spin off MySQL
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http://www.osnews.com/story/22211/Oracle_We_Will_Not_Spin_off_MySQL/When the news broke that Oracle wanted to buy Sun, a number of eyebrows were raised over what would happen to Sun's open source portfolio. While the US Department of Justice gave the green light for the deal to go through, the European Commission was among the eye brows raising crowd, and they were quite worried about the future of specifically MySQL.Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:17:34 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)Oracle and SUN13http://www.osnews.com/topics/7NewsOracle Promises to Commit to SPARC, Solaris
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http://www.osnews.com/story/22147/Oracle_Promises_to_Commit_to_SPARC_Solaris/There we are! It took them a while, but Oracle has finally said a few things about the future of Sun's SPARC and Solaris products. Oracle placed an ad in the European edition of The Wall Street Journal listing four plans the company has with SPARC and Solaris.Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:41:31 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)Oracle and SUN47http://www.osnews.com/topics/7NewspoundsmackEU Concerned About Future MySQL
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http://www.osnews.com/story/22108/EU_Concerned_About_Future_MySQL/While the US Department of Justice has already given the green light to Sun's purchase by Oracle, the European Commission is a little more weary about possible antitrust issues. Neelie Kroes, EU commissioner for competition, is especially worried about the future of Sun's open source endeavours, specifically MySQL.Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:51:16 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)Oracle and SUN47http://www.osnews.com/topics/7NewsHendrik WoutersSun Plans On-Chip Security Boost for UltraSPARC
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http://www.osnews.com/story/22063/Sun_Plans_On-Chip_Security_Boost_for_UltraSPARC/"Sun Microsystems' product plans are up in the air pending its acquisition by Oracle, but the company's chip engineers continue to present new designs in the hope they'll see the light of day. At the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Tuesday, Sun presented plans for a security accelerator chip that it said would reduce encryption costs for applications such as VoIP calls and online banking Web sites. The chip, known as a coprocessor, will be included on the same silicon as Rainbow Falls, the code name for the follow-on to Sun's multithreaded Ultrasparc T2 processor."Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:08:42 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)Oracle and SUN16http://www.osnews.com/topics/7NewsDOJ Approves $7.4B Oracle-Sun Deal
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http://www.osnews.com/story/22043/DOJ_Approves_7_4B_Oracle-Sun_Deal/Oracle on Thursday said the U.S. Department of Justice has approved its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, although the deal is subject to certain conditions and still needs the blessing of European regulators. Oracle first announced its bid in April and Sun shareholders approved the acquisition on July 16. The combined company will give Oracle an array of new assets, including a stake in the computer hardware market, the open-source MySQL database and stewardship of the Java programming language. Sun would be just the latest in a long string of companies gobbled up in recent years by Oracle.Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:12:30 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)Oracle and SUN8http://www.osnews.com/topics/7NewsSun Shareholders Approve Acquisition by Oracle
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http://www.osnews.com/story/21851/Sun_Shareholders_Approve_Acquisition_by_Oracle/"Sun announced that at a special meeting of stockholders held on July 16, 2009, its stockholders adopted the merger agreement entered into with Oracle Corporation, under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. Approximately 62% of the shares of Sun common stock outstanding as of the record date for the meeting voted to adopt the agreement." Well, it seems I won't have to take down our fancy Oracle icon which I put up when the news first got out.Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:18:33 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)Oracle and SUN6http://www.osnews.com/topics/7News