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Anti-Patterns for Technical Leaders
By Joe Brockmeier / February 2, 2012 6:01 AM / 0 Comments

What's the difference between a CTO and a vice-president of engineering (VPoE)? According to Jason Hoffman and Bryan Cantrill of Joyent, the lines are blurry. At the Monki Gras conference

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The Way We Were c.1995
By David Strom / October 6, 2011 9:36 AM / 0 Comments

Lots of memories of my computing past flooding through me this morning, and no, this won't be another Jobs tribute. But a post yesterday talking about whether you were using

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Larry Ellison Leads Oracle Into the 1990s and Beyond
By Scott M. Fulton, III / October 3, 2011 10:09 AM / 0 Comments

Certainly the theory that Oracle had no plans for Sun Microsystems following its acquisition, has been completely deflated. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison always wanted to be able to deliver database

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Larry Ellison: Now He Has His Eyes on an NBA Basketball Team
By Alex Williams / January 28, 2010 1:33 AM / 12 Comments

Larry Ellison completed Oracle's purchase of Sun this week. Now he is making it clear he wants a professional basketball team. There have been rumors for months that Ellison wanted

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Oracle/Sun Deal Not Out of Hot Water Yet
By Steven Walling / September 2, 2009 11:58 AM / 7 Comments

The U.S. Department of Justice may have approved the purchase of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, but the deal still could be delayed by yet another institution. The Brussels-based European Commission

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MySQL.com Down Due to Massive Power Outage
By Steven Walling / July 22, 2009 3:39 PM / 9 Comments

As of July 22nd, all MySQL.com Web services have become completely inaccessible. Just in time for OSCON, the failure leaves all six million or more users of the open source

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Sun Shareholders Say Aye to Oracle Merger
By Steven Walling / July 16, 2009 2:20 PM / 10 Comments

As of today, the shareholders of Sun Microsystems have approved the merger with Oracle at a meeting at Sun's offices in Santa Clara, California. Announced on April 20th, Sun will

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IT Consolidation Blues: CHOI Does Not Spell Choice
By Bernard Lunn / April 23, 2009 2:30 AM / 13 Comments

Oracle is buying Sun, and bankers are looking forward to the next wave of consolidation. To somebody who remembers the innovation and excitement of earlier enterprise hardware and software start-ups,

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