http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/ Twincling Foundation, Hyderabad AP India Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:33:45 GMT Saifi Khan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/108 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/108 Hi all: We are migrating WiTi from Yahoogroups.com to Googlegroups.com. The new group web address is: http://groups.google.com/group/witi and the posting Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:11:28 GMT Zubin Wadia http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/107 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/107 They have owned InnoDB for years now and done nothing aggressive. Plus even if they do something aggressive there is the Maria fork and the Drizzle projects to Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:06:17 GMT Namita http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/105 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/105 ... Now, what does this mean for MySQL ? :-) Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:03:46 GMT Saifi Khan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/104 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/104 ... Roshan, by the time you finish your 3rd year BA exams, Sun may have a new buyer ! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090420/ap_on_bi_ge/oracle_sun thanks Saifi. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:48:02 GMT Zubin Wadia http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/103 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/103 ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:18:00 GMT roshan jose http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/102 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/102 Hi, yes $6.5 BN is too low considering the research and the services it provides to its customers.. Initially there might be some misunderstandings as to the Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:42:46 GMT Saifi Khan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/101 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/101 ... Don't worry too much about the price. SUN walking away from the deal only weakens SUN further. It indicates to customers that though i need to go to ER but Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:22:08 GMT Zubin Wadia http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/100 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/100 As I said... $6.5BN is too low :) I wonder why Oracle isn't buying them... they paid $8.5BN for BEA... and have a $95BN market cap. The good news is that they Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:29:46 GMT Sandip Tiwari http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/99 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/99 Sun Walks Away From IBM Merger Talks http://www.internetnews.com/hardware/article.php/3813841/Sun+Walks+Away+From+IBM+Merger+Talks.htm Thanks & regards ST* * Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:17:01 GMT Sandip Tiwari http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/98 Sun Walks Away From IBM Merger Talks http://www.internetnews.com/hardware/article.php/3813841/Sun+Walks+Away+From+IBM+Merger+Talks.htm Thanks & regards ST* * Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:54:59 GMT Saifi Khan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/97 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/97 ... Hello Satya: Monetization *is* an important focus area for this WiTi list. The garden variety are: a. dual license, gpl + close source(eg. MySQL) b. give Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:22:00 GMT Saifi Khan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/95 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/95 Hi: Is ad-revenue supported web 2.0 service model still working ? eg. there are many news papers on the internet that are free, because they make profits Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:21:59 GMT Zubin Wadia http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/94 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/94 IBM doesn't do mergers. They are going to eat Sun alive and blue-wash it. IBM has a market cap 20x of Sun. It would be more amusing if Cisco joined in and Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:21:38 GMT Zubin Wadia http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/93 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/93 Latency is likely a factor too... For example - FaceBook has 2 datacenters in the US - one in Cali and one in Virginia. One is effective at serving the west Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:22:49 GMT Namita http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/91 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/witi/message/91 I'd rather call it a merger. After the HP-Compaq merger in 2002, here is another interesting one. Check out: http://redherring.com/Home/25927 and what impact