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451 CAOS Links 2009.05.15
Matthew Aslett, May 15, 2009 @ 11:57 am ETOpen Database Alliance formed. Oracle buys Virtual Iron. AccesStream reaches version 1.0. And more.
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I’ve just met a fork named Maria
MySQL founder Monty Widenius and Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev announced the launch of the Open Database Alliance – “a collection of companies working together to provide the software, support and services for MariaDB, an enterprise-grade, community-developed branch of MySQL.”
Continuent and Open Query quickly announced their membership, while Monty later clarified that the Alliance will also “include companies and people working on all other open source database”. In a Q&A with Redmonk’s Stephen O’Grady, Monty also noted that he would not be surprised the Alliance had more than 10 companies by the end of the month.
Meanwhile James Dixon offered a couple of related posts, one pleading for calm in the face of Oracle’s impending ownership of Sun/MySQL and the other examining different kinds of open source forks.
Best of the rest
# Oracle finally confirmed its long-rumoured Oracle Virtual Iron acquisition.
# Larry Dignan: Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?
# AccesStream released version 1.0 of its enterprise open source identity access management solution.
# MuleSource announced a Mule ESB transport for FIX, a community contribution from MuleSource partner Ricston.
# Microsoft announced that it is funding the development of PHP SDK for Windows Azure.
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