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[News] Software Freedom Conservancy Grows Up, MySQL Calls Sun "Giant Startup"

  • Subject: [News] Software Freedom Conservancy Grows Up, MySQL Calls Sun "Giant Startup"
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:48:19 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Bongo and Twisted Join the Software Freedom Conservancy

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| The Software Freedom Conservancy, home of Free and Open Source Software 
| (FOSS) projects, has welcomed its two newest members, the Bongo and Twisted 
| projects. The Conservancy now boasts a total of thirteen projects.  
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/application/16066/bongo-twisted-join-software-freedom-conservancy

MySQL's Mårten Mickos on Sun: "We Feel Like We Have Joined a Giant Startup"

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| MySQL's Mårten Mickos has been speaking out on the deep background to his 
| company's decision, instead of pursuing an IPO, to allowing Sun to acquire 
| it. "We feel like we have joined a giant startup," Mickos gushes, before 
| singling out Jonathan Schwartz's "brilliant" CEO charisma as one of the chief 
| tipping-points: "Who wouldn't want to work for him?"    
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http://linuxbusinessnews.sys-con.com/read/497444_p.htm


Related:

At MySQL, it's business as usual

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| With Sun Microsystems announcing earlier this month that it had acquired the 
| most popular open source database company, MySQL, there has been speculation 
| aplenty, some of it grossly misinformed, on just how much change this will 
| mean for staff at the small Swedish company.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| "Lots of MySQL employees are active within the community and have been 
| encouraged to blog," he said. "This is not a closed company, what happens is 
| transparent.  
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16346/1148/


Sun's MySQL Move: A Win-Win

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| Gordon Haff, a senior IT advisor with consultancy Illuminata, has a less 
| exuberant take on Sun's move. He sees it as a good thing for Sun as well as a 
| great thing for MySQL.   
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http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=21912

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