Reaction to EC’s Oracle-Sun delay. OIN to acquire ex-Microsoft patents. And more.

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Reaction to EC’s Oracle-Sun delay
Despite widespread criticism of the European Commission’s decision to open a formal investigation into Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun, Glyn Moody maintained that the EC deserves credit for making open source a central part of its analysis. Meanwhile Monty Program (by way of Steven J Vaughan Nicholls) explained why the EU should block Oracle/Sun, Roberto Galoppini reported that “the EU has a chance to put our European money where its mouth is”, and Matt Asay speculated whether Oracle might end up getting Sun at a 50% discount.

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# WSJ.com reported that the OIN is about to acquire 22 patents previously owned by Microsoft.

# An EU report on the economic impact of software in EU 27 states indicated that open source software had a market value of €3.4B in 2008, up 57.7%.

# Univa UD announced the native OpenSolaris version of UniCluster.

# Reuven Cohen speculated as to who is behind the new Open vSwitch VLan and virtual private cloud project.

# TomTom introduced OpenLR, open-source, royalty-free dynamic location referencing technology.

# The President of Brazil said ‘Using free software improves relation between state and society’.

# LinuxInsider reported that it is boom time for FOSS.

# Phoronix published a few details On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

# ZDnet UK reported that Red Hat hypervisor management tools will run on Windows only.

# Roberto Galoppini profiled RiverMuse’s community building process.