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Solaris 10 license: free for trial only
OSNews has picked up on a post that points out a change in the Solaris license terms: Solaris No Longer Free “Hot on the heals of Oracle’s revamp of Solaris support, the licensing agreement for free...
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New VirtualBox 3.2 Beta
Looks tempting. I wonder exactly what level of support they have included for “Mac OS X guests”? It would be nice (but possibly illegal) if OS X guests were supported under Windows :) VirtualBox 3.2...
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Oracle Pulls the plug on Sun’s PostgreSQL servers
Sun was at one time trying to make Solaris more attractive by making sure you could use PostgresQL with it as an alternative to the fabulously expensive Oracle database. Guess what? Oracle Pulls the...
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Illumos to become OpenSolaris Fork
Illumos has undertaken to remove the last pieces of closed source software (e.g. libc) from OpenSolaris and plans to release a Solaris-compatible fork. They have lined up Nexenta, Berlios, Joyent...
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OpenSolaris is (you guessed it) dead.
Actually, given the plans for a fork, and the recent description of the upcoming release of Solaris 11 – there wasn’t much point in keeping up pretenses. Nevertheless, a memo was “leaked” over the...
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The T3 Sparc servers are up for grabs from Oracle (that still sounds weird). The four socket box runs 512 threads. Larry Ellison’s first Sparc chip and server • The Register The Sparc T3 is a...
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Gosling Unbound
So James Gosling made a few ungaurded comments in an interview recently. A few are great, well worth a read. But the one that I found most interesting is below. I always wondered why a Java IDE was...
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OpenOffice breaks free
First OpenSolaris cuts out on Oracle to form the Illumos project and and OpenIndiana. Now OpenOffice follows suit. As the article says; get used to the name LibreOffice, because Oracle owns the...
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Oracle to shutter sun.com
Its a race to see if the last of our Sun servers disappears before or after the domain. Oracle kills Sun.com after starvation diet • The Register Oracle is killing Sun.com, the online home of Sun...
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Who, besides me, misses Sun Mcrosystems?
Oracle is still struggling to secure Java 7 left wide open to hackers since last October…. Apple and Mozilla have both decided to mark Java as MalWare on their respective systems.
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