Larry Ellison tomorrow will eventually unveil Oracle + Sun strategy, while waiting I took the chance to ping my friend Carlo Piana and ask also his opinion on the European Commission’s clearance of the Oracle/Sun merger.
Packt – the UK publishing company specialized in books on software running yearly the open source CMS award – published “Funambol Mobile Open Source“, the first ever book on Funambol server.
Stefano Fornari, CTO and co-founder of Funambol, wrote a book explaining step-by-step how to install and get started with Funambol (have a look at the Funambol mail sample chapter to get an idea). Either if you are a geek or simply interested in mobile technology, this book provides you with all necessary information about Funambol architecture, how to provide push e-mail and synchronization services or even how to develop extensions on your own.
Despite both the author and the reviewer, Alberto Falossi, are Italians, the book is written in English.
Now that the European Commission has approved the Oracle/Sun merger, while waiting Larry Ellison’s webcast about Oracle + Sun strategy update, I asked again Florian Mueller to share his opinion on Commission’s clearance of the deal.
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Why should PostgreSQL be a threat to Oracle? MySQL has never been a threat to Oracle anyway. 99% of the MySQL users are just looking for a database to store data, they don’t buy support, they don’t need any company in control of the software.
And if they don’t like PostgreSQL, they might take a look at Firebird, CouchDB or another tool. There is so much more out there, MySQL is just one of many.
Kaltura, the open source video platform for online video management, today officially released an open source video extension for Moodle, while only few days ago announced the release of an open source video extension for Joomla!. The growing number of plug-ins and extensions available caught my attention, and triggered in my mind the idea to ask Zohar Babin, Community Manager at Kaltura, how they prioritize among Drupal, Mediawiki, WordPress and others.
3.2.0 Release Candidate 2 (build OOO320_m9) – Release Notes – Have a look at OpenOffice.org 3.2.0, it is the second RC of the future feature release.
OpenOffice.org Thumbnail plugin 1.0 released – The new OpenOffice.org Thumbnail plugin – a plugin for KDE file managers to preview OpenDocument Format files as thumbnails -Â has been released.
UX meeting in Hamburg, Day Two – Discover what the Renaissance team is currently working on to tclean up Impress user interface.
Few days ago WaveMaker announced profitability, showing an increase on sales by over 53% in the latest quarter, eventually showing the world that the cloud is a given, and not a prediction.
Chris Keene, WaveMaker CEO, gave me some background information on how the WaveMaker open source framework later became an open cloud development platform.
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Stephen Walli will held the “Commercial Open Source at Work” workshop at the next Open Mobility, in March in San Francisco. The workshop is part of a joint collaboration between Stephen and myself, of which I am proud and glad.
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IDC’s recent prediction that Android apps would quintuple is well in line with a former AdMob statement expecting a huge holidays season for the Android platform (a prediction done much before the Google’s AdMob acquisition news was out).
HTC has positioned itself as the Android market’s leader, as results clearly from the Google’s decision to go with HTC to enter into the phone-sales game (see the early review of the Nexus One). But having had a closer look at the HTC Tattoo, one of the latest HTC Android handset, based on the most popular Android platform today (Android 1.6).
Roberto Galoppini and 
Frank are discussing. 
magomarcelo 1:50 am on January 27, 2010 Permalink
I wonder why all the debate has been on MySQL and not even a word was spent on Java open-ness and its specs being governed by the JCP which is not really an independent foundation like Mozilla, but has Sun/Oracle in advantage on all other parties – to me that is a much more valuable common asset to protect than MySQL – let’s see what will be announced…
Roberto Galoppini 8:17 am on January 27, 2010 Permalink
Actually O’ Reilly Community along with Java World and InternetNews were the first to question, others like James Governor keep spending some words on this subject. As a matter of fact the EU didn’t raise any issue about Java, though.