The Yahoo board have rejected last month’s unsolicited purchase bid by Microsoft. Phew!
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The Yahoo board have rejected last month’s unsolicited purchase bid by Microsoft. Phew!
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Sun has agreed to buy MySQL AB for around $1 billion. Totally didn’t see that coming! (Although they’ve been thinking about this for a while.)
Not sure what effect this will have in the near future, maybe licensing changes? Or what impact this will have on OpenOffice.org, if they replace the current database with MySQL that’d be superb!
Tags: acquisitions, databases, MySQL, Sun Microsystems
Microsoft buys stake in Facebook. Oh well, was sorta going off Facebook anyway.
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AJAX-y Timeline of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Acquisitions - very nice interface. Hopefully the author will keep this updated, it makes keeping track of things very simple.
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AMD-ATI (or rather, just AMD now), announce “Fusion”. The gist of this is that it’s a CPU and a GPU on a single chip. This should be great for desktops using 3D, and requiring hardware acceleration (I might look into installing Beryl), and for media center PC’s. Hence I’m quite interested in this news.
I have previously favoured nVidia for graphics, but if this Fusion takes off, maybe I’ll reconsider. Especially if ATI AMD offer adequate Linux driver support.
Article on Slashdot entitled “Google in Talks to Buy YouTube” (which in itself is interesting, eh?), then directly underneath that is linked, “Related Stories: Only a ‘Moron’ Would Buy YouTube“. Well we shall see!
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