An assessment of the Oracle-Sun acquisition in terms of the future for the open source database MySQL is presented by Steve Evans of CBR in the article "What now for MySQL?" He reviews the hard fight Oracle eventually won to become owner of MySQL, and offers why the EU's decision should assuage some of the worries of the open source community.
Former Sun channel executive Tom Wagner, who once served as vice president of the company's North America partner sales, has been hired by Oracle to handle the company's new hardware division, reported Joseph F. Kovar for ChannelWeb. As part of Oracle's acquisition of Sun, this new hardware division is expected to continue the production and future development of much of Sun's server, storage, operating system and software business as Oracle has promised to do.
InfoWorld has published what its test center staff believes are this year's technologies of the year, and Sun's VirtualBox 3.1 is one. The judges find Sun's high performance, cross-platform virtualization software a compelling alternative to VMware Workstation, noting that VirtualBox definitely supersedes this competitor in scalability.
According to Daniel P. Raskin in Sun Identity Marketing Division, the company works hard on ensuring its Sun Identity Management solutions can be integrated with all kinds of popular third party solutions. Recently, Sun published five new solutions briefs on this type of integration. These PDFs provide information on Sun Identity Management Suite partner integrations with Sun ISV partners ARCOT, BrinQa, Cyber-Ark, Intellitactics and Passlogix.
"Interoperable Clouds," a white paper by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), describes snapshot of the work being done in the DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator, including use cases and reference architecture as they relate to the interfaces between a cloud service provider and a cloud service consumer. The paper summarizes the core use cases, reference architecture, and service lifecycle. These building blocks are used to specify the cloud provider interfaces, data artifacts, and profiles to achieve interoperable management.
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