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Oracle and Mozilla Foundation Work Quietly Together

Posted by Zonk on from the oracle-and-mozz-sitting-in-a-tree dept.

KenDaMan writes "CNet is running a story about the ties between Oracle and the Mozilla Foundation. Oracle hired three people to work on Mozilla Lightning. This project, which aims to integrate Mozilla's calendar application, Sunbird, with its e-mail application, Thunderbird, is believed to be key to cracking the market dominance of Microsoft Outlook. Is Oracle getting set make an Open Source offering?"

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  1. Quietly... by imag0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "CNet is running a story about the ties between Oracle and the Mozilla Foundation..."

    Yeah. A running news story on at least two large news sites. Pretty good job keeping the lid on this one, Oracle and Moz!

  2. Wow! by metalligoth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is Oracle getting set make an Open Source offering?

    I dunno. Is Slashdot getting set make good English on the Editor?

    1. Re:Wow! by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

      You are mistaken in your reading of the sentence. Set is an OS coder who works for Oracle, and the offering is a chicken. Oracle are trying to appease the coding gods and Set is the only person who can make the offering because of his religious beliefs (and the fact that his manager beat him into submission with a stick.)

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  3. Not Anymore by zepmaid · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oracle works quietly with Mozilla
    Apparently not anymore.. Slashdot knows!!!