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Sun Cuts Workforce, and Spins an OpenOffice RiddleOStatic blogs - Nov 14, 2008 According to The Register, Sun plans on laying off between 15-18% of its workforce (an estimated 5,000-6,000 positions) and restructuring itself into three major divisions, thanks to earlier periods of slowed growth … Also tagged: database, sun, openoffice, solaris, restructure, management changes |
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OStatic's Glassfish Promotion a Success--More to ComeOStatic blogs - Oct 17, 2008 Back in August, in partnership with Sun Microsystems, OStatic introduced its first free hosting promotion. The promotion offered 100 free online hosted accounts for a year to developers looking to build web … Also tagged: glassfish |
OStatic blogs - Oct 8, 2008
Yesterday Computerworld reported that MySQL cofounder and lead engineer David Axmark has resigned from Sun Microsystems. Axmark indicated that he felt he would be "better off in smaller organizations" and working with …
Also tagged: database, open source, corporate, sun, database management, widenius, axmark
OStatic blogs - Oct 6, 2008
Sun Microsystems has been steadily shifting its business strategy toward open source for quite a while now. From delivering OpenSolaris, to pushing ahead with MySQL, to virtualization efforts, open source is driving …
Also tagged: opensolaris, sun microsystems
OStatic blogs - Sep 22, 2008
Infobright announced last week that a version of its data warehouse product was now being released under an open-source license (the GNU General Public License, version 2). Infobright also announced that it had raised …
Also tagged: data warehouse
OStatic blogs - Sep 3, 2008
Database company Continuent announced the availability of its "Tungsten stack" earlier today. These programs are meant to improve the replication capabilities of the open-source MySQL database, with an eye toward other …
Also tagged: jdbc, replication, postgresql, master slave
OStatic blogs - Aug 28, 2008
Members of various open-source database communities will get together in mid-November for the first-ever "OpenSQL camp." The free conference, which has room for 150 attendees, will be held in Charlottesville, Virginia …
Also tagged: database, postgresql, firebird, sqlite, free conference
OStatic blogs - Aug 21, 2008
The open source world provides several technology choices for developers looking to build web-based applications. Java developers aiming to work on the open source application server Glassfish now have some free …
Also tagged: sun microsystems, glassfish, ostatic promotions
OStatic blogs - Aug 7, 2008
Webinars and webcasts on all kinds of technology topics have exploded in recent years, and the good news is lots of the best ones are free. All you need is a browser to attend them, and most of them stay archived …
Also tagged: google, openoffice, gimp, perl
OStatic blogs - Aug 4, 2008
When you're working with a commercial software company, it's easy to keep up with their latest news: Between the company's Web sites, e-mail newsletters, conferences, and (increasingly) blogs, you can find out what is …
Also tagged: rss, blogs, linux, debian, gnome, ruby, ruby on rails, python, postgresql, perl