Monday, April 2, 2007
Oracle bands with open-source patent group
Oracle bands with open-source patent group
By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
March 26, 2007
Oracle has licensed patents of the Open Invention Network, a group seeking to give open-source allies some clout in an intellectual property realm that favors proprietary software powers.
The network's patents are available royalty-free to any party that agrees not to file infringement suits involving its own patents "against the Linux environment." The environment includes not just the kernel of the operating system, but also higher-level components such as MySQL and PostgreSQL databases...
Read the full news report from here @ CNET News
By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
March 26, 2007
Oracle has licensed patents of the Open Invention Network, a group seeking to give open-source allies some clout in an intellectual property realm that favors proprietary software powers.
The network's patents are available royalty-free to any party that agrees not to file infringement suits involving its own patents "against the Linux environment." The environment includes not just the kernel of the operating system, but also higher-level components such as MySQL and PostgreSQL databases...
Read the full news report from here @ CNET News
Labels: advocacy, databases, oracle
Open-Source Software Eye Business Intelligence, Analytics
Open-Source Software Firms Take Aim At BI
By Brian Womack, Investor's Business Daily
29 Mar 2007
Oracle put the spotlight on the business intelligence sector earlier this month when it announced plans to pay $3.3 billion for Hyperion Solutions...Oracle and others, including IBM and Microsoft see huge opportunities in business intelligence, analysts say.
Now open-source software makers, emboldened by the success of Linux, want a piece, says this article
Read the full news report from here @ Investor's Business Daily
By Brian Womack, Investor's Business Daily
29 Mar 2007
Oracle put the spotlight on the business intelligence sector earlier this month when it announced plans to pay $3.3 billion for Hyperion Solutions...Oracle and others, including IBM and Microsoft see huge opportunities in business intelligence, analysts say.
Now open-source software makers, emboldened by the success of Linux, want a piece, says this article
Read the full news report from here @ Investor's Business Daily
Labels: business-intelligence, ibm, microsoft, oracle
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