Database giant Oracle has established an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems. Ars takes a close look at Sun’s key open source software projects and how these could be affected by the acquisition. News: http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp Database giant Oracle announced Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 per share—roughly $7.4 billion. The two companies reached an agreement after an unsuccessful bid by IBM fell short at $9.40 per share. Oracle has significantly expanded its reach over the past decade through [...]
Sun Microsystems has announced the Code JavaFX Contest 2009 contest. Students and developers across India can participate in this contest. This contest is aimed to generate enthusiasm for the JavaFX technology and to encourage developers to develop and contribute sample applications or games that demonstrate use of JavaFX in creating rich internet applications. Prizes will be awarded to those who submit the best entries as determined by the judges in accordance with these Official Rules. Prizes All verified, eligible Entrants [...]
Join Amrita university’s OSUM today! Amrita OSUM The Open-Source University Meet-Up (OSUM) is a student developer organization that educates its members about the latest open-source technologies in a fun and engaging way. Through its on-campus activities, Sun sponsored OSUMs will receive access to technical information that can be shared with OSUM members via technical demonstrations. Additionally, online web courses, through the Sun Academic Initiative program will be available to the OSUM to provide an opportunity to get its members Sun [...]
OSUM The Amrita Open-Source University Meet-Up (OSUM) is a student developer club that educates its members about the latest open-source technologies in a fun and engaging way. Through on-campus activities, Sun-sponsored OSUMs will receive access to technical information that can be shared with OSUM members through technical demonstrations. Additionally, online web courses through the Sun Academic Initiative (SAI) program will be available to the OSUM to provide an opportunity to get its members Sun Certified.
As I had mentioned in my previous posts that I participated in the Code For Freedom Contest (a technical debugging contest) Conducted by Sun Microsystems over the past few months. This an India wide Contest conducted by Sun. My dear friend Rishi M Nair and I backed the Grand Prize in this contest. Sun Microsystems invited us to attend the international conference to be held at Hyderabad from 27th Feb to 29th Feb 2008. We will be receiving the prize [...]
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database Sun Growth Strategy Accelerates With New Position in $15 Billion Database Market [ Article from: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080116.1.xml ] SANTA CLARA, CA January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. [...]
