In a new FAQ, Oracle explains their position regarding SPARC, Solaris, Java, MySQL, and Open Office to clear up the many questions circulating.

The Open Source Monitoring Conference (OSMC) 2009 in Nuremberg, Germany, on October 28-29 will be the fourth time the meeting, formerly the "Nagios Konferenz," will take place in that city.

Sun Microsystems, recently bought by Oracle, have announced plans to cut 3000 jobs in the near future.

Even though Ubuntu 9.10 is officially completed, developers managed to slip in the new beta version of Apache CouchDB that stores addresses, notes and bookmarks.

The document-oriented database Apache Couch DB is available in version 0.10.0. The release is currently in a beta state.

Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems hasn't been fully sanctioned by anti-trust entities and Oracle already has a message for customers: we'll continue to care intensively about SPARC and Solaris. Something's missing here: MySQL.

This month we feature some new ideas for Windows integration.

Kexi, part of the KOffice suite, allows anyone to create, populate, and maintain a database.