OpenTangent

Certain former MySQL staff and contributers have banded together to create a company by the name of SkySQL . The company offers database services designed for MySQL technologies but they have not officially forked MySQL although their keen interest in MariaDB suggests that they are not confident in the future of MySQL.

The OpenOffice.org community has disassociated its self from Oracle by creating The Document Foundation . Oracle owns the OpenOffice.org brand so the  newly created foundation has rebranded the product as LibreOffice which will effectively replace OpenOffice.org as the standard office application bundled with most Linux distributions. The greater open source community has responded very positively with Novell , Red Hat and Canonical all expressing their intentions of including LibreOffice in future releases of their respective distributions. One down, two to go: OpenOffice.org Java MySQL

Oracle claimed that the EU didn’t get open source when they tried to prevent Oracle’s acquisition of Sun . It’s plain to see that the acquisition was purely to destroy the competition. Sun is dead and it’s software is slowly being buried with it. Well, not quite; Sun actively developed three of the worlds most important open source contributions; Java , MySQL and OpenOffice.org . Regardless of the loopholes that Oracle is trying to pursue with their current case against Google , once a copyleft license is applied, the product effectively becomes the property of the consumer. When the deal was announced, the open source community was up in arms however i believed that Oracle was simply waking up to the necessity for open source in the software industry. The world is not ready to drop the proprietary model just yet but a software company the size of Oracle must have realised that they were falling behind. I was wrong, Oracle have no clue about open source and apparently have no int...