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Sun’s Next Two Open Source Moves

Written By
JP
Joe Panettieri
Feb 6, 2008

[ Thanks to The
VAR Guy
for this link. ]

“Yes, Sun is acquiring MySQL for $1 billion. But Sun CEO
Jonathan Schwartz isn’t done modernizing his company. Not by a long
shot. The VAR Guy isn’t ready to predict which company Sun will
acquire next, but he has noticed Schwartz getting pretty darn cozy
with two fast-growing open source businesses.

“Indeed, Schwartz is scheduled to be a keynote presenter
February 6 at SugarCON, a customer and developer conference hosted
by SugarCRM. Separately, Sun apparently is the top sponsor for
UbuntuLive, a July 2008 conference for organizations running or
deploying Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux…”


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