Ken Auletta, the author of "Google: The End of The World As We Know It", recently revealed that Google was interested in buying the New York...
0 replies - 2675 views - 11/12/09 by lyndsey in News
Oracle and the EU are escalating their legal battle over the Sun acquisition. The EU took the first step towards blocking the merger Monday with a formal...
6 replies - 2595 views - 11/10/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report. Just a few weeks ago, the EU's...
1 replies - 2747 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Sun's stock price has fallen to 16% less than Oracle's offer price for the company. It appears that more investors are concerned that the Sun acquisition...
0 replies - 3586 views - 11/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 is here at last. The new system has improved graphics drivers along with DeviceKit and udev for the hardware interface...
0 replies - 3536 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
This week the European Commission expressed its displeasure with Oracle's lack of cooperation in the antitrust probe surrounding the Sun acquisition. ...
3 replies - 2163 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have...
3 replies - 18833 views - 04/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles
With Oracle just after buying
Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java
community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something...
20 replies - 21383 views - 04/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles
Greenplum, the other (Postgres/Bizgres-based) open
source database near and dear to Sun besides MySQL, this one capable of
messaging a petabyte of data and...
0 replies - 1120 views - 02/13/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
So one day, Scott McNealy, founder and chairman of Sun, read in his morning newspaper how the use of Java was rapidly diminishing, courtesy of something called...
0 replies - 12749 views - 02/03/08 by Ivo Jansch in News
The ink was still drying on Sun’s billion-dollar deal to buy
the webby, low-end open source database house MySQL when Sun turned around and
put money...
0 replies - 4268 views - 01/22/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Sun, Oracle’s sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle
competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source
database that’s part...
2 replies - 2125 views - 01/16/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
