Oracle included a transcript of an interview Larry Ellison did with Reuters in its June Plugged In Newsletter.  In the interview Ellison discusses what Oracle plans to do after the Sun acquisition that will be finalized over the summer.  The basic message is that Oracle is going to leverage Sun’s equipment by combining software and [...]

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Will Oracle Support Open Source?

Yesterday Oracle announced that it is buying Sun. I learned Unix on a Sun Sparc workstation several years ago but at first it didn’t seem to have an impact on me (other than Oracle will now own the hardware as well) but then I thought … hmmm, Sun owns Open Office, MySQL, Java and other [...]

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