Objectional statements on Oracle-Sun-MySQL. How Google uses Linux. And more.

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Objectional statements
The European Commission communicated its Statement of Objections to Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems to those involved, prompting Oracle to claim the EC has a profound misunderstanding of database competition and open source, the US DoJ to reiterate its position that Oracle’s acquisition of Sun is unlikely to be anticompetitive and an EC spokesperson to explain that concern over Oracle owning MySQL is all about copyright and control.

Incidentally, Sun reported a net loss of $120m in Q3 on revenue of $2.24bn from $2.99bn, blamed uncertainty associated with Oracle deal.

For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask

Best of the rest
# LWN.net published an article explaining how Google uses Linux.

# David Skok explained how JBoss built a sales and marketing machine around open source.

# SAP’s Vishal Sikka called for Java to be handed to an independent foundation.

# Microsoft acquired the Teamprise Eclipse IDE-related assets of SourceGear LLC.

# A Black Duck survey suggested 22% of average applixation is OSS, saving developing company $26m per application.

# Liferay hired Paul Hinz from Sun Microsystems as CMO.

# Android and Me reported that Android is a little less open that it used to be.

# Microsoft marked the three-year anniversary of its interoperability agreement with Novell.

# Henrik Ingo provided an update on the Open Database Alliance.

# People Power Company launched to develop open source home area network.

# Intalio released Jetty 7, first Intalio release of Java app server and first developed with Eclipse.org.

# Oracle has released Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0.

# Bradley M Kuhn offered some guidelines for dealing with GPL violations, starting with “don’t jump to conclusions”.

# Zend and Varien partnered to bring Zend Server to Varien’s Magento eCommerce software.

# NetworkWorld presented 11 open source start up companies to watch.

# Continuent delivered Continuent Tungsten Community Edition for MySQL database replication software.

# Gorilla Logic released Open Gorilla X-ecution Engine, an open source application simulation tool.

# Broadcom released its BroadVoice family of voice codecs royalty-free under the LGPL.