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- Open source: the mark of cool?
- Open source: the mark of cool?Apple tweaks its OSS experimentFirst, a minor correction: it's not true that "no company is as proprietary as Apple is" -- Microsoft on its operating system is more proprietary than Apple. (Are there any pieces of Windows available under an OSS license?) What's true is...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-08
- Oracle's Purchase Corner's MySQL
- Oracle's Purchase Corner's MySQLStall?[i]Anyone who relies on free and open source software, should be asking themselves what that means if commercial companies can so easily stall the development of the products they depend.[/i]How? By not working on it?The Berkely DB from Sleepycat is BSD licensed, so there's no...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-15
- Sleepycat: Open source plays with strings
- Sleepycat: Open source plays with stringsViral vs. ReciprocalHuh?The only difference between so-called "reciprocal" licenses and the "viral" GPL is that the GPL has multiple copyright holders so that the reciprocity is to the [i]code[/i], not to the [i]owner[/i].As for Sleepycat, their DB license is basically the (surprise, surprise) Berkely license...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-15
- Sleepycat: Open source plays with strings
- Sleepycat's acquisition this week is a poigniant reminder of how licenses that call themselves "open" or "free" often come with strings attached, and why Foundations like Eclipse and Apache are so important.Quick quiz: what do Sleepycat, JBoss, and MySQL have in common? A dual license - one free but viral...
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
- Oracle's Purchase Corner's MySQL
- Oracle bought Sleepycat today. Sleepycat makes a good embedded database product and an XML database built on top of it. I've used the XML database in several projects and found that it's stable and quick. What's more the built-in XQuery engine makes querying with the XML...
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
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- Is the open source IPO a pipe dream?
- Will Red Hat be the only major pure play open source company to go public? That's what observers are wondering as more and more open source stars are swallowed up by traditional proprietary giants, with Nokia's purchase of Trolltech – announced yesterday - and Sun's buy...
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Oracle's war of stack against stack
- Oracle's war of stack against stackMySQLSo as to not put all their eggs in one basket, MySQL recently announced removal of support for BerkleyDB Oracle SleepyCat acquisition and offers both MyISAM and InnoDB engines as of MySQL Enterprise version 5.1.12.The Oracle Windows StoryI suspect that Oracle is a huge open...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- HOWTO: Pick an open source license (part 1)
- HOWTO: Pick an open source license (part 1)Correct me if I'm wrongbut wouldn't using a dual license GPL and proprietary mean that you lose the benefit of community participation? Certainly anyone can take the GPL code and do what they wish with it, but you, the original coder, cannot take...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-14
- HOWTO: Pick an open source license (part 1)
- Update: Part 2 is now available. [More updates were made to this article on 22jun06 to clarify a few things based on reader comments. -ebb] You've made the decision to release your code as "open source". Ok, what does that mean, what is an open source license, and...
- Blog posts 2006-06-14
- Ingres CTO says Oracle will fail in bid to control open source
- More fuel to the fire over attempts to control open source by Oracle (and others?). I had an interesting chat with Jim Finn, the comms head of Ingres--currently the hottest open source database enterprise software company. Mr Finn was recently head of IBM's North Americas communications group, and about...
- Blog posts 2006-03-01
- If Oracle can buy out Open Source, why not Microsoft?
- If Oracle can buy out Open Source, why not Microsoft?One reason..M$ has it's hands full with all those lawsuits (market domination e.g.) already... They'r probably not willing to add a few more to the bulk.And second: The competition keeps M$ programmers, aware of the fact that there are products "out...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-27
- Is Oracle pushing open source leadership overseas?
- The millions being offered by Oracle and others for open source database vendors could have an unintended side-effect, pushing open source innovation overseas.Let's face facts. Oracle isn't buying outfits like Sleepycat and InnoDB to improve the open source world. It's absorbing those companies into an ecosystem dominated by its proprietary...
- Blog posts 2006-02-21
- Don't cry for me oh mySQL (the truth is Oracle can't have you)
- Don't cry for me oh mySQL (the truth is Oracle can't have you)thank you so muchDana,There is not nearly enough Andrew Lloyd Weber in my life. Thank you for this gift. best,Corneliuswhat you are saying isstolen propert if legitimized, then its legit propertyVery similar to the pirates who took over...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-17
- Don't cry for me oh mySQL (the truth is Oracle can't have you)
- Bruce Perens now a VP with Sourcelabs has blogged a sharp little analysis of Oracle's buying spree whose short form might be Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy."Or we can go all Madonna on Larry Ellison's troops and sing from the top of the balcony:"Don't cry for me, oh...
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
- Redmonkers dissect Oracle's open source plans
- The Redmonks--Stephen O'Grady and James Governor--speculate on Oracle's ambitious plans to gooble up open source companies--playmates for Siebel, J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, Innodb, etc. Here's an excerpt from Stephen's post:The Best Defense is a Good Offense:The interesting thing about the acquistions, with the possible exception of Sleepycat - although I could...
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
- Oracle's fiduciary duty to stop the open-source movement
- Oracle's fiduciary duty to stop the open-source movementSounds too good to be true[i]An acquisition of MySQL, for example, would provide Oracle with an incredible return on its investment in just a matter of months because it would stop the loss of tens of millions of dollars in lost new business.[/i]I...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-17
- Oracle's fiduciary duty to stop the open-source movement
- Oracle's attempt to buy MySQL, and its acquisition of open-source database company Sleepycat, and its reported interest in JBoss, demonstrate an extremely aggressive attack on the open-source movement. The software giant could stop much of the open-software movement dead in its tracks through acquisitions, and stifle the rest of...
- Blog posts 2006-02-16
- Oracle snaps up open-source database firm
- Oracle snaps up open-source database firmis Oracle buying the competition?Is Oracle buying the competition to sell the same products for ca$h or just to kill them?I had thought about using SleepyCat for a data store in one of my projects,but now will have to re-think this. As I understand, SleepyCat...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-14
- The Oracle "monopoly"
- Oracle's business model in recent years has been to roll-up (buy-out) its competition and then charge monopoly rents.This has worked, for Oracle, with big customers. If you need big databases, backed by professional support, you really have two choices these days -- Oracle and SAP. To call that an open...
- Blog posts 2006-02-12
- What is Oracle up to?
- Businessweek is reporting that Oracle is in negotiations to buy several open source companies including JBoss, Zend, and Sleepycat."Oracle is in talks to buy at least three open-source software companies in deals that could be valued at more than $600 million, BusinessWeek Online has learned. The transactions would extend the...
- Blog posts 2006-02-10
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