While taking a trip to sun.com today, I noticed that it’s already redirecting to oracle.com. And at the same moment I noticed that the headliner at oracle.com is an announcement about the Oracle Cloud Computing Forum. Given Larry’s well know views of the cloud, I found this amusing. And a vision of Larry running a [...]
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Don’t misunderstand Oracle’s purchase of Sun
January 31st, 2010 · View Comments · Computing
I was reading a blog post about what will happen now that Oracle has purchased Sun. The poster repeated a number of fallacies that I’ve seen around the web.
1. MySQL is dead now.
MySQL is dead? No its not. Oracle has owned InnoDB and never once used it against MySQL users. They own [...]
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What does an Oracle acquisition of Sun mean?
April 21st, 2009 · View Comments · Java
I’ve been asked by multiple people what I think of the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. I’ve assembled my thoughts on the matter. I don’t have any particular insight, just a general experience with Oracle. And all of this is subject to the deal being completed sometime in the summer.
Oracle is now a hardware company. [...]
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Sun and Cloud Computing
March 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Computing, Java
Tim Bray, one of the moving forces behind XML wrote a blog entry about his work on cloud computing at Sun. It has lots of interesting information in it:
Sun is working on an open specification for creating, administrating and controlling cloud resources
Sun is implementing Amazon S3 interfaces
Sun is morphing the Q-Layer software [...]
Running Oracle for Development on the Mac
October 3rd, 2008 · View Comments · Mac
Update: Oracle has released 10g for OS/X. Here’s a third-party guide to installing it.
Oracle still hasn’t come out with a current version of their database for the Mac. If you need to work with an Oracle database and need a local copy for development this is a problem. Luckily it’s one that [...]
