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PostPosted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 3:10 am    Post subject: [News] Sun Targets Education with Free Software
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Sun Microsystems Showcases Open Source Technologies at Educause 2009

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| Showcasing its Open Computing portfolio and
| partner solutions at the Educause Conference
| 2009, Sun Microsystems is reinforcing its
| position as a leader in open source
| technologies for the education community. It
| today announced that Columbia University
| will use an open source Sun solution to run
| its digital preservation project, and also
| that the University of Zurich is deploying
| Project Wonderland projects to advance an
| ambitious global eLearning initiative.
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Report: Oracle not yielding to EU with Sun buy

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| EU antitrust regulators are concerned that
| Oracle, which has a large business in
| proprietary software, won't be a good home
| for Sun's open-source MySQL database
| business. According to the report, Oracle is
| unyielding, offering no concessions to deal
| with the EU's concerns.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10389918-264.html


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EU to Oracle: MySQL is sore point in Sun deal

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| Europe's head of competition has criticized
| Oracle for what she characterised as a lack
| of cooperation over the investigation of
| Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun
| Microsystems, a spokesman for the European
| Commission said.
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