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451 CAOS Links – 2008.01.21
Raven Zachary, January 21, 2008 @ 9:26 pm ETSun acquires MySQL. Oracle acquires BEA. OpenAds obtains $15m in funding. (and more)
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)
Oracle to Acquire BEA Systems , Oracle (Press Release)
Openads Closes $15.5 Million Series B Funding Led by Accel Partners, Openads (Press Release)
IBM Accelerates Desktop Customer Choice With Support for Ubuntu, Red Hat and Novell Software, IBM (Press Release)
Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS released delivering on long term support commitment, Canonical (Press Release)
Ohloh Goes Open Source, Ohloh (Press Release)
The Apache Software Foundation Wraps Up 2007 As Its Strongest Year to Date, Apache Software Foundation (ASF) (Press Release)
Unisys Predicts CIOs in 2008 Will Expand Use of Open Source Solutions to Modernize IT Environments, Unisys (Press Release)
Trolltech’s Qt to be licensed under the GPL v3, Trolltech (Press Release)
Mandriva and Turbolinux announce a partnership and create a joint development lab called Manbo-Labs, Mandriva / Turbolinux (Press Release)
Gigaspaces Launches Developer Community Site Openspaces.Org, GigaSpaces (Press Release)
MuleSource Introduces New Mule ESB Offering to Support Enterprise SOA Infrastructure, MuleSource (Press Release)
CNR.com Beta Usage Numbers Released, Linspire (Press Release)
Red Hat Announces Winners of JBoss Innovation Awards 2008, Red Hat (Press Release)
Red Hat at the crossroads, ITPro, Richard Hillesley (Article)
SugarCRM: The Next Big SaaS IPO?, MSPmentor, Joe Panettieri (Article)
Wait Just a Minute – Intel Isn’t the Bad Guy Here, The Wall Street Journal, Bruce Sewell (Article)
CSI: Open Source, InternetNews, Sean Michael Kerner (Article)
In a Vortex, Sun Microsystems – Jonathan’s Blog, Jonathan Schwartz (Blog)
A conversation with Marten Mickos (MySQL) and Rich Green (Sun) about The Acquisition, CNET – The Open Road, Matt Asay (Blog)
Open Agents? The Need for Better Standards Work – barcampESM sessions, RedMonk – People Over Process, Michael Cote (Blog)
A BEA-utiful Week, Red Hat – Enter The JBoss Matrix, Shaun Connolly (Blog)
More on Sun’s Acquisition of MySQL, InfoWorld Open Sources, Zack Urlocker (Blog)
Five Questions Facing Sun’s MySQL Acquisition, The VAR Guy (Blog)
all software…, Microsoft – Port 25, Jamie Cannon (Blog)
Open Source Support: When Should You Go Commercial?, Enterprise Networking Planet, Charlie Schluting (Blog)
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