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Oracle buys Sun (and gets MySQL)
Here is Monty’s (co-founder of MySQL, left SUN some time ago) opinion. On a more light-hearted note, here are some Slashdot comments 🙂 Fro rho – a good example for why case sensitivity is important: > Their string comparisons are case sensitive. 8.4 has citext. Or you can make an index with lower() on the…
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Sun bans Romania from downloading
Confirmed from multiple locations with multiple ISPs: whenever I try to download something (JDKs) from Sun using a Romanian IP you get: Your download transaction cannot be approved. Contact Customer Service. I’ve tried downloading a SDN account (so that Sun knows that I don’t want the JDK with all the non-exportable crypto stuff) to no…