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Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

Sun used to boast that it was one of the largest contributors to open source. That’s being demonstrated now that Oracle has acquired the company. Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and subsequent layoffs, are having ripple effects on the open source … Continue reading →

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The State of PostgreSQL: Not So Easy to Kill

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

If you follow open source news at all, it’s been pretty hard to ignore MySQL the last few months. With a desperate campaign to stop Oracle gobbling up MySQL, the FLOSS poster database has been front and center. As usual, … Continue reading →

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Monty Still Trying to “Save” MySQL

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

Let it never be said that Monty Widenius gave up without a fight. Widenius hasn’t given up hope of blocking Oracle taking MySQL as part of its Sun acquisition. He started before the holidays by calling for a letter writing … Continue reading →

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