Entries Related to ‘Sun’

What Does Oracle’s Buyout of Sun Mean to Open Source?

By Ernest Park on Friday, May 1st, 2009 in Community

There’s been a lot of commotion around Oracle’s recent $7.4 billion bid for Sun Microsystems, but what does it really mean to the open source community and Sun’s open source components — especially MySQL? In this article we’ll take a look at some of the possibilities and examine the potential impact of each on the future of open source software.

Related Software Packages: Glassfish, MySQL, NetBeans, OpenJDK, OpenOffice, OpenPTK, OpenSSO, PostgreSQL, Roller
Keywords: Java, Oracle, Sun

MySQL 5.1 is GA

By Freddy Andersen on Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 in Technical

MySQL 5.1 GA has been released with a number of new features and performance enhancements…

Related Software Packages: MySQL
Keywords: Database, Sun

JACL Licensing Case Study

By Content Team on Friday, August 1st, 2008 in Open Source Licensing

During the Certification of Jacl 1.4.1 in May 2008, OpenLogic discovered that versions of Jacl previous to 1.4 were licensed under a proprietary copyright statement. This statement is included as a text file in the distribution as the “Jacl License”. The project Web site offered no additional information on the license….

Related Software Packages: Jacl
Keywords: License, Sun