On 04/20/2009 10:13 AM, Barnett, Jeffrey wrote:
I know the answer is yes, but does anyone care to speculate on the
impact of Oracle's takeover of Sun, which controls in addition to open
source workhorse JAVA, MySQL, OpenOffice, and Netbeans (all of which
complete with proprietary products from
The user community for these products is WAY bigger than code4lib,
naturally. If Oracle manages to mess them up, then the user community
will fork, or migrate to different products, and we will follow.
Fortunately we are not alone here, there are giant communities formed
around these open
] On Behalf Of Thomas
Dowling
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 10:42 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] can code4lib survive Oracle's takeover of Sun?
On 04/20/2009 10:13 AM, Barnett, Jeffrey wrote:
I know the answer is yes, but does anyone care to speculate on the
impact of Oracle's
I don't know if there is anything that can be done about it, but if
anyone is interested, I've set up a Facebook group opposing the merger.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=91044005659
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David Cloutman dclout...@co.marin.ca.us
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Cloutman, David wrote:
I don't know if there is anything that can be done about it, but if
anyone is interested, I've set up a Facebook group opposing the merger.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=91044005659
I doubt that joining a facebook group is going to
