Practical Technology » Mergers

Elliot Associates’ worrisome Novell plans

sjvn — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:17:47 +0000

Elliot Associates L.P., a hedge fund, which claims to already own 8.5% of Novell’s stock made an unsolicited bid to buy the Linux company lock, stock, and code for $1.8 billion on March 2nd. This move may be good for Novell stock owners, but I fear it may be death for Novell’s commercial SUSE Linux [...]

What happens to Sun’s open-source software now?

sjvn — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:18:39 +0000

The deal is done. Oracle now owns Sun. Oracle’s main message to Sun’s customers seems to be “Don’t worry, be happy.” That’s not easy when Oracle is not explaining in any detail what it will be doing with open-source software offerings like MySQL, OpenOffice, and OpenSolaris.

In general, we know that Sun’s software product catalog will [...]

Opposition mounts to Oracle’s MySQL acquisition

sjvn — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:05:23 +0000

The EC (European Commission), the European Union’s top competition authority, isn’t crazy about Oracle buying Sun. You might have thought it was just open-source advocates objecting to the deal out of the fear that Oracle, the world’s biggest proprietary DBMS (database management systems) company would close down the most popular open-source DBMS. You’d be wrong. [...]