Oracle-Sun deal renews calls for OpenOffice's independence

Oracle's purchase of Sun last week is reviving calls for Sun's open-source OpenOffice.org suite to be spun out into an independent foundation.

Mozilla patches 12 Firefox bugs, a third of them critical
Mozilla Tuesday patched 12 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3, just days before it hopes to roll out the newest beta of its next open-source browser, Firefox 3.5.

Users: Oracle has lots of questions to answer about Sun deal
Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. is raising questions among users on, well, just about every aspect of the deal.

Has Microsoft lost its war on open source?
Is Microsoft a friend or foe of open source? Going by the company's actions, Microsoft can't seem to decide whether to make love or war. But if it's war, Microsoft appears to lack the legal weaponry to defeat or even disturb its adversaries.

Oracle's Sun buy: Ellison praises Solaris, snubs IBM
Oracle Corp. may have decided to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. because it was worth far more to the database market leader than it was to IBM. It's not a question of the price - at $7.4 billion, Oracle didn't agree to pay much more than what IBM reportedly was considering. But Oracle may have more use for Sun's technology than IBM ever did.

Experts: Oracle and MySQL do not create a database monopoly
Oracle's $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. will bring together the world's most valuable relational database with the most popular open source one -- MySQL.

A faster, sleeker way to do MySQL?
The archetypal MySQL database chugs along in the server room of a Web 2.0 start-up, powering a small but promising Web site. In fact, a quarter of the 12 million MySQL installations are data warehouses doing business intelligence and analytics for companies.

Red Hat connects its distributor SYNNEX with ISVs
Red Hat is helping nine of its open-source ISV partners get broader distribution for their products in North America through a partnership with one of its major distributors, SYNNEX.

Sun's open-source boss slams App Engine's Java support
Google committed a major transgression by only including support for a subset of Java classes in its App Engine development platform, according to Sun Microsystems' chief open source officer, Simon Phipps.

Web 2.0 works to solve problems
Every marketing firm must have the same set of buzzword stamps they use, inking every product with Green and Collaboration and Easy to Use and Do More With Less, often tagged additionally with the ever popular Web 2.0. Since the Web 2.0 buzzword long ago became so vague as to be useless, let me introduce you to three companies that solve Real World 1.0 problems with the help of Web 2.0 technology: YouSendIt, EchoSign, and Casdex.

Firefox May Already Be Dead
This is an exciting time for Web browsers. Google Chrome is now available in alpha for Linux, and I downloaded it for Ubuntu. Despite the fact that I was running it on my rather underpowered Dell Mini 9, it started in the blink of an eye. Additionally, any JavaScript-heavy sites like Gmail or Google Docs were so responsive that it's almost unbelievable.

Mozilla looks to turbocharge Firefox's new-tab skills
Mozilla's research arm wants to speed up tasks in Firefox that typically start with a blank tab, like searching, reading Web mail or navigating to a new site, a company official said Wednesday.

Mozilla patches eight Firefox bugs, six critical
Mozilla today patched eight security vulnerabilities in Firefox, half of them critical memory corruption flaws in the browser's layout and JavaScript engines.

Exchange challenger integrates with Mac calendar
Open-source Exchange competitor Zarafa is adding support for CalDAV to its groupware server, enabling integration with the Mac OS X calendar application iCal, for instance, it announced at Cebit in Hanover, Germany.

Beijing start-up develops Web media player for TV
A fledgling software developer in Beijing has developed an embedded application that it hopes will bridge the gap between PCs and consumer electronics, allowing users to easily play computer video and audio files through their televisions and stereos.

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