Sun Shines On Oracle Part Deux

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

In a previous post, we discussed the history of Oracle and MySQL. In this post we will focus on Oracle's relationship with its new star, Java. History Oracle made its first big move into the Java space in 2001 when it acquired a non-exclusive license for the source code of Sweden-based IronFlare ...

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Sun Shines On Oracle

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Recently, after a failed bid by IBM, Sun announced that they will be selling the company to Oracle for $7.4B. At Deft Labs, we saw the writing on the wall for this deal in January of 2008. This post examines the historical relationship between Oracle and MySQL and looks at ...

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