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[ILUG] Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems

[ILUG] Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems

FRLinux frlinux at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 17:05:32 IST 2009


On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Tim Kersten <tim at io41.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:37 PM, David Howe <david.howe at howesystems.com> wrote:
>>> Interesting implications for MySQL, Open Office and the FOSS community.
>>> Now there are only 2 big iron players out there with the exception of
>>> GNU/Linux based systems.
>
> I'm curious as to what this will mean for btrfs now that they own zfs.
> I'll wait and see :-)

Hello Tim,

Well, ZFS is released under CDDL
(http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing_faq/) which means
that technically, not much can happen to it. Worse case scenario, a
fork will happen I guess.

Steph



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