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Calls for re-examining the governance of Java...

US regulators clear the deal, but what about the EU?"Oracle's $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems got the sign-off it needed from federal antitrust regulators today, removing a key hurdle for the two companies' merger. "Oracle said the U.S. Department of Justice approved the deal, first announced in April, and terminated the companies' waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.

This was news I was sorry to hear. I know good folks at SGI..."The fact that SGI was acquired by Rackable Systems for the sad sum of $25 million was big news on Wednesday only because most people had forgotten that the company, formerly better known as Silicon Graphics, still existed.

Who has the best message for open source?"I continue to stand in awe of IBM's ability to market. Here's how this morning's line-up of executive keynotes went down this morning at OSBC. "First up was Jonathon Schwarz, Sun CEO. Jonathon always gives good presentations, although he seemed a little brittle this morning." [Read more at Once More Unto the Breach]... [more]

News that's indicative of trends in the operating system market... "In what may come to be seen as a deeply symbolic moment in the history of operating systems, Red Hat is on the verge of surpassing Sun Microsystems' market capitalization for the first time. "Sun, perhaps unfairly, represents a fading Unix market. Red Hat, for its part, represents the rising Linux market." [Read more at The Open Road] ... [more]

Solaris to Linux is still a popular move, but Sun can still hold on to some customers..."Migrating business applications from high-end Unix-based systems such as Sparc/Solaris to commodity x86/Linux platforms has been a popular idea for the past few years, but not everyone thinks going full-on with Linux is the best solution -- at least not yet.

Neil McAllister portends the development future...