MC2 Post 761 Oracle Signals An End to OpenSolaris

I Guess Some Companies Find It

Too Difficult to be Really OPEN.

Oracle Signals An 

End to OpenSolaris

Link: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180709/Oracle_signals_an_end_to_OpenSolaris?source=rss_news

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Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems

On January 27, 2010, Sun was acquired by  
Oracle Corporation for US$7.4 billion, based on an 
agreement signed on April 20, 2009.

Ever since Sun Microsystems sold out to Oracle, it 

seemed just a matter of time before OpenSolaris

would be mothballed. 

If Functionality doesn't 

add to the bottom-line, who needs it?

For bean counters, the math was pretty simple.

The Question is:

What About MySQL?

It was the Main Part of the dubious deal 

done to quash the incredible success of 

the Free Portion of MySQL Database.

  

If you can't out perform a

Free Database System, and you have the Cash, 

Buy It.

How long before it too is shoved into the

Don't Need It, Don't Want It Closet?

Stay Tuned.

Wingman.

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MySQL Links and DooDads
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http://www.mysql.com/

http://dev.mysql.com/

http://planet.mysql.com/

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Not Waiting For The Dust to Clear, 
Oracle Drops Second Shoe 
on It's Stewardship of 
Sun's Java

Oracle's Java Lawsuit 

Undermines 

its Open Source Credibility


Link: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/08/oracles-java-lawsuit-undermines-its-open-source-credibility.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

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Post 291 -- Will the Apple NetBook Please Sign In?

Will the Apple NetBook
Please Sign In?

I'm as guilty as anyone else. MacWorld Expo came and went and we were left pondering,

"Where is the World is the Mac's NetBooK?".

We were looking for something between the iPhone and the Air, and it never showed...

Then today I read a story on The Register about Sun Microsystems entrenchment and acquisition of Tools to enpower Cloud Computing. And their move to join the ranks of Net Storage Poviders. The reduced need for a full-Bore OS, and Mega-Storage.

It was when I sent an email to myself about this gathering of tools by Sun: Open Solaris, Java, MySQL, and New Cloud Software like Q-Layer and PyMonkey, (which reminded me a lot like Rocks Roll configuration program for their Simple Linux Cluster Creator), that something Edgar Allen Poe once said rang a bell.

The best way to hide something was to put it in plain sight.

I blinked and I saw Apple's NetBook. I was holding it in my hands and I had been using it for several months now.

It was the iPod Touch.

PymonkeyDev Link: http://www.openvapps.org/confluence/display/PMDEV/How+to+Write+a+Class+in+PyMonkey

Wingman, really out!