Oracle Makes Aggressive Moves in Open Source (AMR)

Oracle chief Larry Ellison indicated last week that more acquisitions were in the offing, specifically for middleware and business intelligence (BI) software. Immediately thereafter, the open source community was abuzz that Oracle was targeting three acquisitions in that space: JBOSS, a middleware provider; Sleepycat Software, an embeddable database provider; and Zend Technologies, maker of a PHP development tool for server-based HTML scripting.