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Ex-Sun open source veteran Simon Phipps has been elected to the board of directors at the Open Source Initiative (OSI) group. Phipps confirmed in a blog post today that he would start his new role on 1 April. On Monday he quit Oracle-owned Sun, where - prior to Larry Ellison's acquisition of the database firm - he had worked …

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  1. Blake St. Claire
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    Sun was a database firm?

    ... quit Oracle-owned Sun, where - prior to Larry Ellison's acquisition of the database firm ...

    They did "own" MySQL, but I don't think that made them a database firm.

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