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There was a time when Firefox was the Web browsers for the cool kids who knew their tech. Most would still agree that it’s better than Internet Explorer, but that’s damning it with faint praise. Over the last year or so, Firefox have become better known in tech. Savvy circles for its relatively poor performance [...] I’d thought about Oracle buying Sun. But, then I thought, “Larry Ellison isn’t that dumb.” Well, I was wrong. Ellison is that dumb. Oracle is buying Sun in what may be the most moronic technology acquisition of the 21st century. I’ve looked at the Oracle/Sun deal. I’ve read Ellison’s explanation as to why the buyout makes [...] n the last few years, Sun Microsystems has warmed up to open-sourcing its software. In 2006, Sun opened up Java, and in 2007 it open-sourced most of Solaris under the GPLv3. Smaller, side projects, like NetBeans, the Java-based IDE were open-sourced as early as 2001. Sun has also long allowed developers at least some say [...] By this time next week, IBM will have bought Sun at a cut-rate price. I’d long thought Sun was going to down for the count, so the news that IBM was moving in didn’t surprise me. What happens next though? Specifically, what’s going to happen to Sun’s product lines? As a long-time watcher of both [...] |
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