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MySQL Goads Oracle

MySQL is going to wave a red cape in front of Oracle by offering senior Oracle database administrators a free one-day course

By: Enterprise Open Source News Desk

Jul. 16, 2007 01:45 PM

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MySQL is going to wave a red cape in front of Oracle by offering senior Oracle database administrators a free one-day course of technical training in its advanced techniques. Roughly a third of Oracle users are supposed to have MySQL in their shops

Sourceforge Monetization
As a way of monetizing Sourceforge, the open source development rendezvous, they're letting folks buy and sell services from the site.

Microsoft's aQuantive Buy a Go
Microsoft's proposed $6 billion aQuantive online advertising acquisition, a putative Google holding action, has cleared the FTC regulatory hurdles unscathed.

LG Sues Quanta
LG Electronics is suing Quanta in US district court in Wisconsin claiming the Taiwan contract manufacturer and its laptops infringe four of its DVD patents. LG wants damages and an injunction. The suit says the laptops were made for US computer companies. The OEMs weren't named by Quanta's big accounts include Apple, HP, Dell and Sony. LG has 5,000 patents on DVD technologies.

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