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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/23

SAP and Microsoft are supposedly ganging up on Oracle with a new marketing agreement.  Microsoft agreed to recommend SAP's BusinessObjects Planning...

0 replies - 13316 views - 11/23/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today.  According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures...

0 replies - 12935 views - 11/20/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/16

A U.S. District Court judge ruled that Psystar's Mac clones infringe on Apple's copyrights.  Psystar made the case that it could run the Mac OS X on non-Apple...

0 replies - 11878 views - 11/16/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/14

If Oracle were to sell MySQL to a third-party, who would it be?  Many thought Red Hat was the obvious choice with thier JBoss open source division. ...

0 replies - 13694 views - 11/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/12

Ken Auletta, the author of "Google: The End of The World As We Know It",  recently revealed that Google was interested in buying the New York...

0 replies - 11707 views - 11/12/09 by Lyndsey Clevesy in News

EU Rejects Snoracle - Larry Vows to Fight!

Oracle and the  EU are escalating their legal battle over the Sun acquisition.  The EU took the first step towards blocking the merger Monday with a formal...

6 replies - 6261 views - 11/10/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/9

An SAP spokesperson confirmed that the company's CEO Leo Apotheker sent a letter to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison less than two weeks after the EU antitrust probe...

0 replies - 9358 views - 11/09/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Has the Motorola Droid 'Force' Hit You?

The buzz surrounding Motorola's Droid, one of the most anticipated handsets to date, reached a deafening peak today.  In an effort to compete with the iPhone,...

5 replies - 11866 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/6

After being criticized for selling Facebook fans and Twitter followers, uSocial says it has started selling YouTube viewers as well.  uSocial says companies...

0 replies - 11930 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report.  Just a few weeks ago, the EU's...

1 replies - 11001 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/30

The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 is here at last.  The new system has improved graphics drivers along with DeviceKit and udev for the hardware interface...

0 replies - 13276 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/29

The US Department of Defence released a memo saying that they allow and encourage the use of open source software.  It took them six years to clarify this...

0 replies - 12099 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/26

Mozilla recently announced its latest project, "Raindrop", an application intended to bring all of your online messages to one portal.  That...

0 replies - 7540 views - 10/26/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Dzone Daily Dose - 2009/10/24

The NetBeans 6.8 beta is finally available after being delayed more than a month past the original release date.  But it's better late than never as...

1 replies - 4174 views - 10/24/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/23

Firefox may release its upcoming version 3.6 as a so-called "minor update" even though it is actually a fairly major one.  Mike Beltzner, director...

0 replies - 8157 views - 10/22/09 by Lyndsey Clevesy in News