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Larry Ellison becomes the Sun God 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2009, @06:50AM

An anonymous reader writes "A few minutes ago, Oracle announced that they had bought Sun. This should certainly light a fire under Sparc. Also, potentially the last article under the Sun Topic."

Oracle buys sun 0

Submitted by dweezeldude on Monday April 20 2009, @06:39AM

dweezeldude writes "Oracle announced to day that they bought Sun"

Comment: My collection (Score 5, Funny) 115

by Hew on Sunday April 05 2009, @02:38PM (#27467595) Attached to: Spammers Say the Darndest Things

Like the author of the article, I too have been collecting the most poetic entries:

Every woman that sleeps with you will wake up with the smile on her face.
A big member rules - she is satisfied, you are proud.
You can fulfill her request and become extremely blessed.
Having an awesome friend in your pants is all you need in this life.
A big instrument is a mortgage to success.
When your tool is big, the rest of the world seems so little for you.
Catch rapturous girls' looks on your zipper protuberance.
The best and easiest way to improve your lovemaking is the improvement of your love instrument.
Filll your bed partner's brain with the excitement and satisfaction.

MS-partners buy swedish OOXML vote-> 0

Submitted by

A_x11

on Tuesday August 28 2007, @08:10AM

A_x11 writes "Yesterday the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) voted in favour of Microsoft's OOXML-format. From the article: "As bad as it sound it currently looks like that the vote that took place at the SIS, Swedish Standards Institute, was a total joke due to the facts that 23 new companies applied to take part of today's voting and most of them in favour of Microsoft agenda.""
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SIS allows Microsoft to affect OOXML votes!-> 0

Submitted by

aim2future

on Tuesday August 28 2007, @07:32AM

aim2future writes "Microsoft has caused last minute changes to the SIS (Swedish Standards Institute) committee, voting about OOXML. Changing an expected NO to a YES.

"The word for today is "disenfranchisement" ... An attempt to fraudulently disenfranchise a voter is despicable wherever it occurs ... misrepresenting the rules and procedures in order to prevent another party from exercising their right to vote ... is universally deplored."... From Computerworld blogs
If you read swedish: here is an article about Microsoft's raid Microsoftkupp mot formatomröstning and here is a list of companies that Microsoft got into the committee last minute"
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Microsoft managed to buy the vote of Sweden in ISO 0

Submitted by Fritz on Tuesday August 28 2007, @06:58AM

Fritz writes "As Patrik Fälström wrote on his blogg, Microsoft has managed to buy Swedens vote in ISO for the OOXML by sending 17 of their gold partners to the voting and paying their membership fee. This raises the question whether SIS has a broken process for voting of standards."

Microsoft coup against iso standards body-> 0

Submitted by

bytewize

on Tuesday August 28 2007, @06:29AM

bytewize writes "Today the iso standards body here in Sweden has accepted ooxml as a standard. It seems that a number of Microsoft partners joined the body just before the vote and managed to swing the vote in Microsoft's faviour. IBM walked out and refused to vote. If this is what we can expect in the future then the iso standards body might just as well pack up and close shop. Nobody should be able to buy acceptance of a standard. It should become a standard based entirely on its own merits."
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Microsoft buys the Swedish vote on OOXML-> 0

Submitted by CoolCat on Tuesday August 28 2007, @06:29AM

CoolCat writes "From the site: "As bad as it sound it currently looks like that the vote that took place at the SIS, Swedish Standards Institute, was a total joke due to the facts that 23 new companies applied to take part of today's voting and most of them in favour of Microsoft agenda. One would think that SIS would not accept new companies to participate in the vote since they haven't been part of the earlier discussions and meetings. But according to SIS they didn't see any problem that new companies wanted to take part in this vote without prior notice. So what happened here is that Microsoft gather together a bunch of loyal partners that would vote yes to their standard without any questions.""
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Microsoft buys the Swedish vote on OOXML-> 0

Submitted by Valpis on Tuesday August 28 2007, @06:27AM

Valpis writes "When SIS (Swedish Standards Institute ) should vote yes or no to OOXML as a standard the result became yes. The group consisted earlier of 11 companies and the result was supposed to be no. But the last couple of days several companies recieved letters from Microsoft urging them to join SIS (cost only $2000) and vote yes so in the last days 25 more companies joined, most of the microsoft partners,some even the same day as the voting took place. The list of the companies can be found on http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.118249 (in swedish)."
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How MS bought an ISO & got Sweden to say YES! 1

Submitted by

Landreth

on Tuesday August 28 2007, @04:57AM

Landreth writes "According to OS2 World.Com Microsoft Sweden bought the Swedish vote by rounding up Microsoft Gold Partners for the final vote regarding OOXML and by that change what should been a clear NO to a clear YES. To quote from the article:

"To be able to vote all you need is to pay the membership fee to SIS and the total cost for this was 17.000 SEK (2444 USD). Of the 23 new companies that showed up this last minute and where the majority hasn't shown any earlier interest, only Google has a clear agenda regarding OOXML and they are against it."

"Jonas Bosson who participated in today's meeting on behalf on FFII said that he left the meeting in protest and so did also IBM's Swedish local representative Johan Westman."

The article can be found at OS2 World.Com."