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Hot on the heels of acquiring Sun, Oracle has changed the license for Solaris making it non-free once again.

In a time like this, such a move can only be fatal and of course ultimately beneficial to Linux.

Cyber Cynic: "The deal is done. Oracle now owns Sun. Oracle's main message to Sun's customers seems to be "Don't worry, be happy.""

Information Week: "A curious insight has come from all the recent talk about MySQL / Sun / Oracle. People talk about a community around a given open source product, but there's at least as much talk about a team within it.

Let's not neglect the importance of either of those things."

Netstat-vat: "At long last, the European Commission has come out against Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun. My colleague Andy Patrizo wrote about this yesterday and he forecast that this would happen last week on our podcast too."

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."

EnterpriseStorageForum: ""No one outside of Oracle and perhaps some people at Sun really know what's going to happen exactly when the deal closes..." Into that vacuum naturally flows rampant speculation -- so read on!"

This post was written by News Contributor, Pam Derringer.

CIO Update: "With slumping budgets, declining server market, and a moribund Sun, Oracle will be hard-pressed to make the hardware side of this deal a strong success."