The next hurdle that Oracle’s unconditional acquisition of Sun and MySQL faces is clearing the formal meeting of the European Commission’s so-called advisory committee, the 27 national regulators in the European Union, which is reportedly set for Monday afternoon January 11 in Brussels. The European Commission supposedly drafted a blocking decision right after it issued [...]
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The United States Senate waded into the Oracle-Sun imbroglio Tuesday. Fifty-nine senators from both sides of the aisle led by one-time presidential hopeful John Kerry (D-Mass) and perennial presidential pretender Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) signed a letter to the European Commission asking it to wrap up its investigation of the Oracle-Sun merger as soon as possible [...]
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The European Commission is about to object formally to Oracle’s multibillion-dollar acquisition of Sun because Oracle is hanging tough and refusing to make any concessions concerning the open source database MySQL, a potential Oracle rival as the EC sees it, according to the Financial Times. The paper said a statement of objection (SO) could be [...]
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Red Hat Tuesday said it put an unspecified amount of money into EnterpriseDB, the Postgres-based open source database that has claimed it could really bloody Oracle as a drop-in replacement except so far it’s had neither the will nor wit to do it. So now along comes Red Hat, which has a bone or two [...]
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by Maureen O’Gara Kickfire, the data warehouse start-up with its very own parallel-processing SQL chip – and the first low-end data warehouse play ever – has beefed up its MySQL Enterprise-based appliance so it’ll stretch to systems that are 5TB. Back in the spring when it started rolling its widgets out they were good for [...]
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Well, well, well, a little bird points to IBM as gumming up the works with the European Commission so Oracle and Sun can’t close their deal. Oracle of course picked up Sun after IBM’s negotiations with Sun failed and Oracle made IBM the intended target of the proposed acquisition in an ad on the front [...]
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Tukwila, the next Itanium chip – which once upon a time was supposed to be out in, oh, let’s see, 2006/2007, and was just delayed this past February until some time around the middle of this year – has been delayed yet again, this time until the first quarter of 2010. Intel is mumbling something [...]
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by Maureen O’Gara Larry Ellison has bought himself a revolt. MySQL refuses to go gentle into Oracle’s uncertain arms. Monty Widenius, principal author of the original version of the open source database and a founder of the MySQL company that Sun bought last year for a billion dollars, is proposing to wrest control of the [...]
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Ah, the great chessboard of life. So figure Oracle’s possession of Sun and its attendant resources like, oh, MySQL and Java is a potential threat to IBM. So what does IBM turn around and do? Well, it plays a card it’s been holding in its hand for the last year – EnterpriseDB – which if [...]
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The strengthening dollar played havoc with Oracle’s fiscal second quarter, which spanned the ugly months of September through November when the recession took hold. The company, which gets over half its business from overseas, earned close to $1.3 billion, 25 cents a share, down 1%, on revenues up 6% to $5.61 billion. It lost four [...]
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