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What's the Oracle Trial Against SAP Really About? 160

Posted by CmdrTaco from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.
Ponca City writes "Chris O'Brien writes in the Merucry News that Larry Ellison's lawsuit against bitter rival SAP gives Ellison the opportunity to deliver the final humiliation to his company's greatest foe of the past decade while sending a blunt message to Oracle's next great enemy, Hewlett-Packard: 'This is who you are fighting. This is how determined we are to win. Get ready.' O'Brien writes that it's a crafty bit of psychological warfare that is already having the desired effect. When Oracle decided to subpoena former SAP CEO Léo Apotheker after he was appointed president and CEO of HP, Apotheker decided to stay out of the country to avoid testifying so now we have the bizarre spectacle of the new CEO of the largest technology company in the world unable to show his face in Silicon Valley. Ellison loves to fight. In gaining control of PeopleSoft, Ellison demonstrated the love of combat and confrontation that has made him one of the wealthiest men on the planet. He waged an 18-month hostile takeover bid to acquire the company, and fought off an effort by the US Department of Justice to torpedo the deal. 'Oracle probably could have settled this case [with SAP],' writes O'Brien. 'But why pass up a glorious chance to subpoena Apotheker and send your new opponent running in circles?'"

Comment Re:Um.. (Score 0, Troll) 195

by almightyons (#33594206) Attached to: Data Deduplication Comparative Review
Not only this is just another name for compression, it's another name for the usual 'diff' that every good backup system should be doing - storing only the changes from time to time, not the whole thing. And all that should be packed in any good backup appliance.
GNU is Not Unix

Glibc Is Finally Free Software 337

Posted by timothy from the after-the-fact dept.
WebMink writes "Despite the fervour of some, the dark secret of every GNU/Linux distribution is that, until August 18 this year, it depended on software that was under a non-Free license — incompatible with the Open Source Definition and non-Free according to Debian and the FSF. A long tale of tenacity and software archeology has finally led to that software appearing under the 3-clause BSD license — ironically, at the behest of an Oracle VP. The result is that glibc, portmap and NFS are no longer tainted."
NASA

Russia's Unmanned Capsule Misses Space Station 224

Posted by timothy from the head-'em-off-at-the-next-pass dept.
mikesd81 writes "Russia's unmanned cargo ship Progress 38 missed docking with the ISS and sailed right on by it instead of docking on autopilot. A telemetry lock between the Russian-made Progress module and the space station was lost and the module flew past at a safe distance. NASA said the crew was never in danger and that the supplies are not critical and will not affect station operations. There will be no other attempts at docking today, and the orbit of the module raises questions of any other attempts again. Packed aboard the spacecraft are 1,918 pounds of propellant for the station, 110 pounds of oxygen, 220 pounds of water and 2,667 pounds of dry cargo — which includes spare parts, science equipment and other supplies."

Comment Re:Midichlorian testing to come soon (Score 2, Informative) 192

If you guys read Asimov's foundation, you should know that Star Wars is just an attempt in taking probably the best series of science fiction ever written and delivering it in a more acessible package for the masses. No, you don't want plausible mutants whith electromagnetic devices that alter other people's perception, you just want a 'force'. Star wars is just Fantasy put in a 80s' hype era.

Comment Re:No it isn't (Score 1) 1186

by almightyons (#32722356) Attached to: Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek?
First amendment obviously doesn't apply here, and do you really expect for a contractor to say "Sorry, we like you, but we don't go for people with tatoos" or simply give a bare look in your face, realize you have a tatoo and go on to the next candidate immediately?

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