Posts Tagged ‘Future’

Ubuntu Spreads Out to Svelte, Lightweight Netbook Editions

Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth is out with some very interesting news about Ubuntu in a blog post today .

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The Case for Cadence: Towards a Shared Release Cycle

Time-based release cycles have been extremely beneficial for free and open source software projects and the idea has caught on organically.

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The Case for Cadence: Towards a Shared Release Cycle

MySQL Founder Monty Widenius On What to Expect Next

MySQL founder Monty Widenius, who left Sun Microsystems early last year, remained very  vocal throughout the long machinations leading up to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, even mounting a letter writing campaign .  With the Sun acquisition going forward, we reached out to Monty for an interview and he was kind enough to share his thoughts with us. In this two-part interview he speaks candidly about MySQL and Sun, and we will run the second half of the long interview tomorrow. OStatic: Now that the acquisition is going through, what do you think the future of MySQL is going to be?

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MySQL Founder Monty Widenius On What to Expect Next