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Oracle buys Sun. Now What?

by Doc Searls
on April 20, 2009

So Oracle bought Sun. Aside from the usual vendor sports stories (IBM lost this one), what's the deal here for Linux and other open source fixtures in both Sun's and Oracle's portfolios? What happens to MySQL? What happens to Java? How about Solaris? You tell us.

Here's Sun's open source site.

And here's Oracle's.

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