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February 2006 - Posts

• Open Source Sailing Boats

  Jerry Fiddler (founding CEO of Windriver) today pointed out to me, that there was an open source sailing boat! See yourself! Being an architect by training, I also found the notion of open source architecture very compelling. We are living in the information Read More... Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 11:10 PM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source

• Adapt or die--the choice facing the open source movement

  Tom Foremski writes in SiliconValleyWatcher about the rationale behind Oracle's open source "embracement", and clearly speaks out what it is: A defensive move to try to stiffle the open source movement by buying out its protagonists. But that will not Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:11 PM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source

• MySQL Doomed? No Way!

  I got a lot of feedback on my last 2 posts on the imminent Oracle acquisitions of Sleepycat, JBoss and Zend - and their relation to MySQL, a company that I have been observing and researching on for several years now. One thing I really want to get straight Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:12 PM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, MySQL, Silicon Valley

• Oracle and Sleepycat... Hm.

  Why would Oracle buy Sleepycat. They are not really in the embedded space. Well, they are, but they are laggards with 2% market share. Buying another 2% doesn't really make sense. Oh, hang on. Isn't Berkeley DB inside MySQL? Aren't we repeating the InnoBase Read More... Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 1:36 AM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, MySQL, Silicon Valley

• Oracle Buying Spree: Open Source Looses its Innocence

  According to several sources , Oracle is out there to get a firm handle on the existing open source stacks and seeks to buy JBoss, Sleepycat, and Zend. While Mark Fleury's JBoss is clearly a top player in the Java stack and Doron Gerstel's Zend in the Read More... Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 1:19 AM by Christof | 0 Comments