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Bump in the Road for Oracle-Sun Deal

By Brad Jones on September 3, 2009 9:40 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

Yahoo! news reports, EU probes Oracle-Sun deal, cites open-source issue

The center of the issue coming form the EU commission is that Oracle is the largest database company and it is taking over the largest open soruce database. According to the newsreport, The EU commission has noted that the database market has 85% control in the hands of only three companies — Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. Thus, they are weighing the risk that a high visibility, open-source database could be hurt by the Oracle purchase.

It will be interesting to see what safeguards are required to keep MySQL in the hands of the open-source community—if any

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February 8, 2010 3:12 PM bandsxbands said:

Virtual Memory sure is becoming cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. I wonder when we will eventually reach the ratio of $0.01 to 1 Gig.

I await the day when I will finally be able to afford a 20 terabyte harddrive, lol. But for now I will be happy with having a 16 GB Micro SD in my R4i.

(Posted on Qezv2 for R4i Nintendo DS.)

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