Archive for the ‘open source’ Category

The old ones are the best…

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

I know it's old [from 2008's Oracle OpenWorld event] but i've just been listening to Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison's rant about how fashion driven the tech industry is and how the definition of cloud computing keeps changing. If you want to brighten up your day have a listen and tell ...

Potential delay to Oracle’s Sun deal caused by EU investigation

Friday, September 4th, 2009

The biggest technology merger of the year is under threat from an EU investigation into competition rules. The proposed $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, announced in April this year and approved by US regulators only last month, is now in doubt after the European Union said that ...