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Looking back about Data Centre location

Looking back about Data Centre location

I just came across some writing I did while working at Sun Microsystems; they/we were considering building a cloud platform in Europe and I was part of the team evaluating the potential location. (This would have been 2008/2009. The key

Dave 13th February 201910th May 2020 technology No Comments Read more

Sunset, finally?

Sunset, finally?

Simon Phipps comments on Oracle’s decision to close down the SPARC and Solaris business units. He  was close to the politics of Sun’s “Dash to Open” in the mid noughties. My feeling is that Sun had failed before Schwartz was

Dave 4th September 201719th March 2018 economics, technology 1 Comment Read more

Commoditisation killed Sun Microsystems

Commoditisation killed Sun Microsystems

Eric Raymond,  wrote a short article on his blog, “Commoditization, not open source, killed Sun Microsystems”, which I commented on. This blog article says a little bit more than I felt I had room for on someone else’s blog, and

Dave 30th September 201415th July 2018 technology 1 Comment Read more

Software Migration

I had reason to revist some of the thinking behind my book on Software Migration, the key lesson of which is that the drivers and hence the tactics for software migrations vary. I worked with colleagues at Sun Microsystems in

Dave 8th November 201118th June 2021 technology No Comments Read more

Free Software in Europe please

It’s an exciting day with respect to the Oracle/Sun acquisition and the EU investigation. Eblen Mogden, on his blog represents his evidence, which says better than I can, why forcing Oracle to de-merge or re-licence MySQL is against the public

Dave 14th December 200910th May 2020 technology No Comments Read more

Oracle, Sun, MySQL and Monopoly

Monty Widenius has issued a manifesto asking that open sourcers and MySQL users to write to the EU to let them know their views on Oracle’s potential ownership of the MySQL copyright. He of course hopes we will argue that

Dave 14th December 2009 technology No Comments Read more

Oracle & Sun & the European Single Market

A lot of people have been busy commenting on the EU’s investigation into the competitive dynamics of Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun, so I thought I’d join in.

Dave 28th October 200929th December 2022 economics, technology No Comments Read more

What’s Larry up to?

Larry Ellison, interviewed by Ed Zander about Sun, Oracle, the future and the Americas cup. This took place at a Churchill Club event on 21st September. Forbes have written it up, as Larry Ellison’s Game Plan, and the event is

Dave 6th October 200910th May 2020 technology No Comments Read more

Are liberal licenses a better future proofing

A couple of days after the Kable Open Source conference, I looked up Gianugo Rabellino’s blog and read his then most recent blog article, “Of Oracle, Sun and Open Development” about the impact of M&A on open source investment protection.

Dave 11th May 20094th June 2021 technology 1 Comment Read more

Barcelona

I travelled to Barcelona with Mrs L. and on my return went up to London and travelled by Tube to deliver a presentation to Kable’s “Open Source in the Public Sector”, which reminded me of the weekend in Barcelona, both

Dave 21st April 20092nd November 2018 economics, travel No Comments Read more
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