The Portable Consultant

ECM infrastructure architecture… and unrelated matters.

Archive for January, 2008

MySQL acquisition by Sun Microsystems good for Open Source?

by @ Monday, January 28th, 2008. Filed under Open Source

The Portable Consultant has only now noticed Developer Shed’s good overview of the acquisition of key the open source database company MySQL by Sun Microsystems.
This is certainly good for Sun. It is probably a good place for MySQL, given the alternatives. And it is most likely good for MySQL fans, whether they require the open […]

It’s about ‘fair use’, Mr. Minister

by @ Saturday, January 5th, 2008. Filed under Copyfight, Grumbles

The other morning The Portable Consultant caught the second part of a two part interview (RealMedia ram) with Canada’s Industry Minister Jim Prentice on CBC’s (very) early morning business show, The Business Network.
(It’s sad that this business show is relegated to the ridiculously early time slot of 5:45 AM in Canada’s centre of business, […]

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