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Offline captain-custard

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oracle to buy sun
on: April 20, 2009, 07:09:10 pm
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Re: oracle to buy sun
Reply #1 on: April 20, 2009, 08:10:17 pm
And the Most Misleading Thread Title award goes to Andicirk.
 

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Reply #2 on: April 20, 2009, 08:11:26 pm
How is it misleading?

As to the topic at hand...WOW! This is bad...maybe :shaking:
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Re: oracle to buy sun
Reply #3 on: April 20, 2009, 08:20:02 pm
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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Re: oracle to buy sun
Reply #4 on: April 20, 2009, 08:37:53 pm
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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Re: oracle to buy sun
Reply #5 on: April 20, 2009, 08:42:59 pm
Quote from: blowfish on April 20, 2009, 08:20:02 pm
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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Re: oracle to buy sun
Reply #6 on: April 20, 2009, 09:41:58 pm
Quote from: blowfish on April 20, 2009, 08:20:02 pm
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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Reply #7 on: April 20, 2009, 09:43:58 pm
That too...
 

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Reply #8 on: April 20, 2009, 10:08:11 pm
One has to wonder about MySQL's future now that Oracle owns it.
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Re: oracle to buy sun
Reply #9 on: April 20, 2009, 10:11:31 pm
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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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Re: oracle to buy sun
Reply #10 on: April 20, 2009, 10:22:57 pm
Quote from: Herra Tohtori on April 20, 2009, 10:11:31 pm
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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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Reply #11 on: April 20, 2009, 10:36:55 pm
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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Re: oracle to buy sun
Reply #12 on: April 20, 2009, 10:50:47 pm
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. 

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Reply #13 on: April 20, 2009, 11:58:36 pm
Quote from: redsniper on April 20, 2009, 10:36:55 pm
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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Reply #14 on: April 21, 2009, 12:49:40 am
Quote from: Goober5000 on April 20, 2009, 11:58:36 pm
Quote from: redsniper on April 20, 2009, 10:36:55 pm
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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Reply #15 on: April 21, 2009, 01:06:47 am
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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Re: oracle to buy sun
Reply #17 on: April 21, 2009, 01:51:53 am
Quote from: Goober5000 on April 20, 2009, 11:58:36 pm
Quote from: redsniper on April 20, 2009, 10:36:55 pm
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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Reply #18 on: April 21, 2009, 06:28:58 am
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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Re: oracle to buy sun
Reply #19 on: April 21, 2009, 03:18:02 pm
Quote from: ssmit132 on April 21, 2009, 01:51:53 am
Quote from: Goober5000 on April 20, 2009, 11:58:36 pm
Quote from: redsniper on April 20, 2009, 10:36:55 pm
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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Me not! As a Brit I thought they were buying a tabloid newspaper and thought :wtf:
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