[General] Sun to buy MySQL for $1 billion

[Majed B.]

"And since the best enterprise solutions for HR, Finance, CRM, and others
all come from Oracle after these acquisitions"
The best?! I pretty much doubt that! Oracle stinks at integrating its
numerous modules, and you'd be one of the few lucky people in the world who
got a working well-integrated implementation! And if you're talking abut
Oracle's Fusion, so far, it's still vaporware. They're promising and
promising, but we still don't see anything!!

Last year, my company started an ERP system implementation of SAP. The year
before that, we had 3 consultants digging info & comparing between Oracle &
SAP. Price-wise & technology-wise, SAP had all the advantages. Even their
various modules integrate like a breeze.

Regarding Plaxo, I heard it from a friend who uses OpenID like air! So I
took it for granted, but after you asked, I checked around and found no
solid proof of that, only rumors. Even Plaxo's "About Us" page, mentions
nothing of any acquisitions, or share buyouts. [
http://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+site%3Aplaxo.com&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8]

On another note, Google & Facebook had joined DataPortability.org [
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/goog-fb-data.php], allowing data to be
moved between different *networks*. Maybe this is where privacy issues
should rise? Is data kept on the older network? What if you moved, and
someone else took your old name, do they get your history/data?

More on that DataPortability.org thing here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=facebook+google+openID&btnG=Search
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      Majed B.
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