Juan J. Martínez used to talk here about Open Source and Other Things.
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From Trond’s Opening Standard.
This is after Oracle’s management of the OpenOffice.org community led to a successful fork of the project: LibreOffice. Oracle, you’re doing it definitely wrong.
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I think this chart from Who Contributes the Most to LibreOffice? summarizes it all: 133 new coders and 55 localizers since the fork!
This is good news, to add to LibreOffice obtaining the 50,000€ needed for The Document Foundation. Go LibreOffice!
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From The story behind the story behind the news today by Michael Meeks, regarding The Document Foundation.
Good news! (and about time!)
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OpenOffice at the crossroads, a conversation with Michael Meeks by Richard Hillesley.
The quote is from Simon Phipps, an ex-Sun employee.
Michael “Monty” Widenius, the creator of MySQL, is asking for help to save MySQL of Oracle.
On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems, the actual owner of MySQL (SUN acquired MySQL on 2008).
You know what’s the Oracle’s business (databases), and that the future of MySQL doesn’t look very promising after the companies merge. USA authorities have blessed the deal, but the European Commission is still reluctant because of the possible effects of the deal over MySQL. Great!
Monty does a very good review of current situation, and the example of Oracle’s behaviour after buying InnoDB is very enlightening (and frightening too!).
It’s very easy to help:
I don’t think the final solution would be stopping Oracle/SUN deal, but it’s a first step that people is aware that it’s very likely that Oracle will let MySQL die slowly.
Update: Good news! Seems that Oracle Makes Commitments to Customers, Developers and Users of MySQL (via Oracle garantiza continuidad a MySQL).
That will calm down the European Commission, and most the people worried for the future of MySQL.
From The future of free and open source support models.
The post is about enterprise support and I found it interesting, but the graph deserves a post by itself.
Notice the graph shows percentage growth, not absolute values. It means that Oracle jobs offers are experimenting a slow increase at best, but Open Source databases are growing and growing every year.
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From Stuff Michael Meeks is doing. I agree with Michael.
Shame on you Sun!
— From stunned, by Ryan Thiessen, a Database developer and administrator in Seattle WA.
Shocking news!
Remember, Sun owns/sponsor some of the most valuable Open Source projects: OpenOffice.org, MySQL, OpenSolaris, VirtualBox, just to name a few.
I don’t know what’s the official position of Oracle about Open Source, but there might be changes. Well, after IBM leaving the bid, Oracle seems to be less bad that Cisco, doesn’t it?
Update: the other side of the story, Oracle Buys Sun.
