Monthly Archives: April 2009

Oracle buys Sun Microsystems

Posted 20/04/2009 – 12:30 in: Hardware, Industry

Oracle has stepped up and bought Sun Microsystems after IBM walked away last week. Although the $7.4bn price seems quite cheap for Sun. But I guess they’re not what they used to be.
The move has been pitched as the first company to provide a full application to disk integrated system. Oracle in a box basically. [...]

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WordPress Patch-a-thon

Posted 14/04/2009 – 22:57 in: Development, WordPress

For the big 2.8 release there is a push on to clear down some of the outstanding bugs. To support this the WordPress team are running a Patch-a-thon over 24 hours. I’m grabbing mine, get your’s from the trac bug list.
Info for the Has-patch Marathon
Trac Bug List for 2.8

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OSSAT

Posted 11/04/2009 – 22:25 in: Internet, Meetup, WordPress

The Open Source Show and Tell (OSSAT) at the Team last week went well. A great turn out for it’s inaugural outing. So a big thanks to all the speakers. I think a special mention for Phil Whitehouse who pulled it all together and Steve Blackery for rapidly getting the wi-fi working! Thanks to everyone [...]

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