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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: captain-custard on April 20, 2009, 07:09:10 pm
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8008246.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8008246.stm)
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And the Most Misleading Thread Title award goes to Andicirk.
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How is it misleading?
As to the topic at hand...WOW! This is bad...maybe :shaking:
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I think he thought it meant that Oracle was actually going to buy the sun :eek2:
I heard about this, since my mom works for Oracle (she doesn't disagree that they're big and evil). So this means that Oracle owns Java, MySQL, and I don't know what else...
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Explains the over $2 a share jump in Sun. Like that but hate that I'm still loosing my arse on it. Never listen to rich relatives on what stocks to buy.
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I think he thought it meant that Oracle was actually going to buy the sun :eek2:
I heard about this, since my mom works for Oracle (she doesn't disagree that they're big and evil). So this means that Oracle owns Java, MySQL, and I don't know what else...
Funny, I got it right away. I'm not even a Brit.
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I think he thought it meant that Oracle was actually going to buy the sun :eek2:
I heard about this, since my mom works for Oracle (she doesn't disagree that they're big and evil). So this means that Oracle owns Java, MySQL, and I don't know what else...
Suns server hardware.
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That too...
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One has to wonder about MySQL's future now that Oracle owns it.
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So this means that Oracle owns Java, MySQL, and I don't know what else...
Solaris OS too. :nervous:
I hope they keep developing OpenOffice.org as... open office software.
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So this means that Oracle owns Java, MySQL, and I don't know what else...
Solaris OS too. :nervous:
I hope they keep developing OpenOffice.org as... open office software.
I hope so too, because now that Oracle is (probably) going to acquire Sun, they might have the ability to change the licensing on OpenOffice from LGPL to a much more restrictive proprietary license, and pissing off a -massive- amount of Linux users. :mad:
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The lack of caps made me think of a future-predicting oracle buying our local star, but I guess we've covered that already.
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Well Oracle has always been one for sticking it to mickysoft and even taking a loss to do it. Hopefully open office will be another app to do just that.
/me wonders why no one has gone the Delphi/Sun route yet.
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The lack of caps made me think of a future-predicting oracle buying our local star, but I guess we've covered that already.
Me too. Ancient Greece ftw!
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The lack of caps made me think of a future-predicting oracle buying our local star, but I guess we've covered that already.
Me too. Ancient Greece ftw!
Which is why he gets the award. :P
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My dad (who's in the business as well) said that Oracle programmed all their stuff in Java, so they would've been in trouble if IBM had bought Sun (which they intended to do) ...
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Ars Technica has a very good article about the acquisition posted here:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/oracle-acquires-sun-ars-explores-the-impact-on-open-source.ars
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The lack of caps made me think of a future-predicting oracle buying our local star, but I guess we've covered that already.
Me too. Ancient Greece ftw!
Me three. :P
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I've just started using OpenOffice and I don't dislike it. It doesn't quite have the functionality of MS Office (I really like Office 07), but it is free, fairly solid, and better than any other of the free online alternatives (Google docs has its place, but it's nowhere near a MS Word replacement) so I'm hoping they keep it going. :nod:
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The lack of caps made me think of a future-predicting oracle buying our local star, but I guess we've covered that already.
Me too. Ancient Greece ftw!
Me three. :P
Me not! As a Brit I thought they were buying a tabloid newspaper and thought :wtf:
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The lack of caps made me think of a future-predicting oracle buying our local star, but I guess we've covered that already.
Me too. Ancient Greece ftw!
Me three. :P
Me not! As a Brit I thought they were buying a tabloid newspaper and thought :wtf:
QFT.