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+-   PayPal Offers $150,000 In Developer Challenge-> on Monday December 14, @11:21AM blackbearnh

Submitted by blackbearnh on Monday December 14, @11:21AM
blackbearnh writes "As previous reported in Slashdot, PayPal has released a series of new APIs that allow developers to embed PayPal into their web sites and applications without having to have the user go to the PayPal web site to complete the transaction. To encourage developers to use these new APIs, PayPal is offering two prizes totally $150,000 for interesting new applications. The entry deadline for ideas is Dec 16th, and O'Reilly has an interview with the director of the PayPal Developer Network that covers the details of the contest. In it, Naveed Anwar talks about why PayPal is throwing money at developers. "When Facebook opened up their platform, it allowed people to work in that particular environment, in the Facebook environment. When the iPhone opened up their platform, they allowed people to work in their environment which was build the applications on the iPhone. When PayPal was looking at opening up its platform, we are not limited by one particular area. We go into the enterprises. We go into social networking. We go into all the places where payment as a solution is needed. And if we can actually reduce that barrier of entry — because at the end of the day, when anyone is building out a business and anyone is building out an application, they're looking at ways of monetizing it.""
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+-   Oracle responds to MySQL purchase concerns-> on Monday December 14, @11:04AM Luke has no name

Submitted by Luke has no name on Monday December 14, @11:04AM
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Luke has no name writes "Yesterday we discussed [MySQL founder] Monty Widenius's objections to the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle. Today, Oracle released a statement to address some of these issues. Among the facts, Oracle intends to continue releasing MySQL under the GPL, allow vendors to produce "any-license" third party engines, maintain the Reference Manual, invest millions into the product, and create a "customer advisory board". Thanks to LWN.net for the link."
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+-   Monty says: Help saving MySQL-> on Sunday December 13, @12:01AM jamie

Submitted by jamie on Sunday December 13, @12:01AM
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