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The Sun-Oracle
Oracle has made a commitment to buy Sun Microsystems, a leader in open source software development and support OpenOffice.org is theirs as well as MySQL, the leading open source database platform. Oracle is the leader in database software and the third largest software company behind MS and IBM, Apple is a mere #32 and local Citrix is #26. http://www.softwaretop100.org/
What might this mean for higher education? Sun is a very strong supporter of higher-ed. Will they make a greater or lesser commitment to ed and open source as Oracle? It remains to be seen.
story link:
http://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html
interesting story on how Microsoft sees open source:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10222336-16.html
