merger

The H: With the merger of the first changes into Linux 3.3, the number of lines of kernel source code has passed through the 15 million mark.

The Globe and Mail: "In announcing its merger, the biggest in its history, Google acknowledged it would gain little from handset businesses acquired."

HuffPo founder dismisses skepticism about merger with legacy online player, but she may have overstepped stepped SEC rules.

There have been a number of attempts over the past few years to revive the sagging news weekly magazine Newsweek (including an amusing attempt to stop being thought of as a news weekly, despite the name).

There's also the still confusing merger with the website The Daily Beast. Still, old media tends to live on well past its sell-by date, as you can usually find enough advertisers who will pay just based on name recognition alone.

DatabaseJournal: "Membase and CouchOne announced their merger last month. Couchbase is now out with its first product release called Couchbase Server, which extends the capabilities of the open source NoSQL Apache CouchDB database."

ZDNet: "Last week, Novell announced that its stockholders have voted to adopt the previously announced merger with Attachmate and Longview Software Acquisition Corp., a special purpose vehicle formed by Attachmate designed to acquire all of Novell's stock."

LWN: "Today is the culmination of a huge effort by the worldwide Nokia and Intel teams to share the MeeGo operating system code with the open source community.

This is the latest step in the full merger of Maemo and Moblin..."

Internetnews: "European regulators have given Oracle the tentative green light in its long-delayed merger with Sun Microsystems now that Oracle has assuaged concerns about the stewardship of the open source MySQL database."

Internetnews: "Sun Microsystems in an SEC filing Tuesday disclosed that it will lop off up to 3,000 jobs in the next 12 months as it and Oracle await the European Commission's approval of their proposed $7.4 billion merger."

EnterpriseStorageForum: "Anyone looking for clarity on the fate of Sun Microsystems' (NASDAQ: JAVA) Open Storage and other programs will have to wait a while longer."