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As year moves toward a conclusion, it is time for a moment of reflection. Don’t worry this won’t involve any ghosts waking you from your eggnog fueled holiday slumber. We simply look back at the top five events of 2010 that were most meaningful in open source and will continue to influence the market in 2011 and beyond.

We are now quickly heading towards the end of the year. It’s time to look back before leaping forward. Here are the major Enterprise CMS highlights of 2010.

A superficial glance at Oracle’s (news, site) announcement around the release of the new Open Office 3.3 and Oracle Cloud Office might lead you to the conclusion that this is about annoying Microsoft and Google Docs.

We've all been watching, wondering if and for how long Oracle and LibreOffice's (news, site) relationship would remain amicable. After only two weeks, any signs of a positive relationship have disappeared as OpenOffice staff pack their things and leave.

A few months ago, we’ve pondered the future of MySQL post the Oracle/Sun acquisition. Our verdict was: the MySQL market was where it was getting hot, with MySQL caught in crossfire.

The MySQL kitchen just got even hotter with more cooks joining. Meet SkySQL – a company built by the original, pre-Sun, pre-Oracle MySQL family of veterans.

As LibreOffice gains momentum, Oracle (news, site) asserts that the company will stick to its commitment to the OpenOffice.org project.

Developers of OpenOffice.org (news, site) software broke free of Oracle to create a modified version of the software called LibreOffice, that will be free of Oracle oversight.

At this week’s Oracle Open World show in San Francisco, Oracle made it clear they will continue to invest in MySQL.  

With OpenWorld only a weekend away Oracle (news, site) couldn’t have gone into it on a higher note than the publication of its Q1 earnings that showed a 20% increase in net income and a 48% rise in revenues.

If there was a certain amount of hand-wringing at this year's IOUG conference over how Sun would integrate into Oracle’s (news, site) portfolio from a technology perspective, from the financial side there were no such discussions. The deal is being cited as one of the principal reasons why the software giant has seen its profits grow by 25% in the fourth quarter.

At the Liferay (news, site) East Coast Symposium, announcements have been flying. Here's what the open source portal vendor has in store.

One of the principal talking points at last month’s IOUG conference was how Oracle is going to integrate Sun and what the roadmap for that integration would be.

Since then, work has already been done on moving this forward. The first instance of this was with the upgrade to Oracle’s (news, site) Enterprise Management platform to 11g. The second, which has just been announced, is the extension of its PartnerNetwork (OPN) with training modules encompassing both Oracle and Sun technologies.
 

After last week’s IOUG conference and concerns expressed by delegates as to how Oracle (news, site)  would integrate Sun Microsystems, Oracle has announced the release of Enterprise Manager (EM) 11g, which will go some of the way to doing that.

This year’s IOUG COLLABORATE conference was always going to be about Sun and what Oracle (news, site) was going to do with it. Over the course of the four days they’ve been doing all they can to reassure customers that it’s really a good thing.

This year’s COLLABORATE 10 conference is the first since Oracle (news, site) acquired Sun. So it's the first time that users of both can get together officially and compare notes.

Speaking about the Sun deal, Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) president Ian Abramson says the result will be a one-stop shop based on complete integration of the two.