20th February 2010 Archive
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Open source - the once and future dream
Ballmer, trolls, and the next ten years
For some, Oracle's $5.6bn purchase of Sun Microsystems was good news for open source. After all, a mega tech vendor has acquired a hugely popular open-source database product and project: MySQL. But at the same time, as the European Union's anti-trust probe wore on, costing Oracle's chief executive $100m a month, and MySQL co- …
Software 20 Feb 00:01
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Google (finally) nabs On2 video codecs
Time to open source?
Google has completed its acquisition of video compression outfit On2 Technologies. On Friday, according to brief statements from the two companies, On2 shareholders voted to approve a deal valued at approximately $124.6 million. That's roughly $18 million more than the value Google named when it first announced the acquisition …
Financial News 20 Feb 06:27
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Sagem DTR94500S HD Freesat+ DVR
Review Capacious
This time last year, there was only one Freesat recorder available, from Humax. Now there are several, of which the Sagem DTR94500S HD is one of the latest. Sagem's DTR94500S HD: the front panel doesn't exude quality It’s a slim unit, around the size of three external hard drive enclosures put side to side – a size that’s …
Reg Hardware 20 Feb 09:02
