LibreOffice: How Communities Have Grown Tired of Oracle

It seems that Oracle attitude towards some communities is starting to have some unwanted consequences. After dumping the OpenSolaris community with an obstinate silence and continuing to leave the Java Community Process in an embarrassing limbo, the OpenOffice community has decided to take action and announced the creation of The Document Foundation to take control of the OpenOffice productivity suite.

Meanwhile, Oracle has been requested to join the "new" community by applying to the Foundation. Other companies worried by Oracle latest moves, such as Google and Novell and Red Hat, are  already supporting the Foundation.

I wonder what Oracle will do and hope that Larry, at least once, does something so that Oracle be not the bad guy. This news makes me miss the Good Old Sun Microsystems.

Sun Microsystems merges with Oracle

Sun Microsystems gets acquired by Oracle. This is the hot news making rounds on the net. This is a news which could have wide ramifications for the Open Source crowd. Why? Because Sun Microsystems creates some of the most well received, robust open source software around. Just to put it in perspective, let me list some of them which come to my mind.Read more »

Unbreakable Linux - Free Linux DVD set from Oracle

First it was Ubuntu and now it is Oracle's turn. That is right; here is a wonderful chance to get yourself a DVD set of Oracle's Unbreakable Linux. Essentially Unbreakable Linux is Red Hat Enterprise Linux sans the Red Hat trademarks.

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