Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread satyaakam goswami
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363 what next, ads for unbreakable opensolaris? regards niyam Whats happening on the Java front, and other tools like Virtual Box, NetBeans... ? -Satya

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Vinay Yadav
Wow its nice to know about MariaDB , thanks trivani On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:34 AM, tirveni yadav yadav.tirv...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Vikram Vincent vincentvik...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/22 Vinay Yadav vinay@gmail.com: what about mysql (acquired by

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Open Linux Tech Center - Freelance
http://www.sqlite.org/ is another alternative to mysql... -- OLTC ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi

Re: [ilugd] GSoC 2009

2009-04-22 Thread Amit Kumar
Hi all!! Congratulations to Ajay Kumar, Pratul Kalia and all others who got selected in Google Summer of Code 2009. I am Amit Kumar and I am also one of the lucky ones who got selected in GSoC 2009 :) and I will be working on Implement Condtion Handling in LimeSurvey 2 for LimeSurvey project.

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Nalin Savara
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Open Linux Tech Center - Freelance open.linux.cen...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.sqlite.org/ is another alternative to mysql... sqlite doesn't quite fit the same niche as mysql. But there

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:22:49 +0530 Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I think this is a good opportunity for Oracle to make strategic moves-- similar to Microsoft corp-- and to try to monetize many users who are now locked in onto LAMP. [...] Would you care to explain how exactly

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Open Linux Tech Center - Freelance open.linux.cen...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.sqlite.org/ is another alternative to mysql... sqlite doesn't quite fit the same niche as mysql. But there are other alternatives like Postgres (http://www.postgresql.org/) and

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Nalin Savara
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:22:49 +0530 Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I think this is a good opportunity for Oracle to make strategic moves-- similar to Microsoft corp-- and to try to monetize many users who are

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009, Nalin Savara wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:22:49 +0530 Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I think this is a good opportunity for Oracle to make strategic moves-- similar to

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009, Nalin Savara wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:22:49 +0530 Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I think this is a

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: Since as of today MySQL is GPL, you cannot force a single user of MySQL in a FOSS application to pay you a single paisa.  Sorry to bust your dreams, but Oracle can only make

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread tirveni yadav
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009, Nalin Savara wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:22:49 +0530

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Vinay Yadav
Mysql is a great database , I personally using it for my many sites and i scare if any how this deal destroy open nature of mysql ,it bad for opensource and FOSS people loving prople, but it nice to know about mariaDB On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:32 PM, tirveni yadav

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Zico
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Vinay Yadav vinay@gmail.com wrote: Mysql is a great database , I personally using it for my many sites and i scare if any how this deal destroy open nature of mysql ,it bad for opensource and FOSS people loving prople, but it nice to know about mariaDB We

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:54:24 +0530 Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] (1) How are people locked into Lamp ? -- because many people/sites use Drupal, Joomla, PHP etc-- and incase a particular platform vendor decides to fork the offering into a premium and non-premium offering; then it

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Nalin Savara
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: snipped lotsa stuff Customer discontent not having as loud a political voice--- can simmer for longer-- and can be handled more cheaply. Customer discontent? Bah to you, and your ilk. You should meet some of the local

[ilugd] IWOCE 2009 (Open Component Ecosystems), 24/08/09 Amsterdam

2009-04-22 Thread narendra sisodiya
-- Forwarded message -- From: IWOCE 2009 iwoce2...@easychair.org Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:01 PM Subject: [F/OSS-Community] CFP: IWOCE 2009 (Open Component Ecosystems), 24/08/09 Amsterdam To: commun...@foss.mit.edu *** Deadline: 03/06/2009 *** (see below for more info)

Re: [ilugd] [OT] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Naresh Narang
I respect your age, seniority and qualifications but even you better refrain from such personal attacks-- and limit yourself to debating and/or criticising the idea rather than degrading a individual's caste or ethnicity. Yeah, also include race, color, sex, preferences, religion, age,

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