Sun bought another open source company today, German virtualisation firm innotek was snapped up. Last week they bought MySQL, in the past they bought StarOffice, and the have at very long last opened up Java and most of Solaris.

I'm not quite sure what they are doing, or if they know what they are doing, but they do have a fat R&D budget and take engineers seriously. My only fear is that they don't need to own these firms to make a good distro - Canonical have come from no where and built their fame on the back of Debian - which will ultimately mean things wont have a happy ending.

With Oracle and Nokia also in spending mood, it's a good time to be a shareholder with plans for a new yacht. Even Microsoft are blundering about in their own incompetent way, trying to buy Yahoo! is an incredibly stupid thing for them to do.

If any large, rich but clueless multinational wants to offer me a few million, they can have a copy of my Perl modules and my time for a few nano seconds. Don't worry the code is GPL so you can always fork them if you think it's all an evil plan... ;-)