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more »Gartner: Open Source Penetrating SaaS Segment
Apr 15, 2008Open Source software is likely to dominate the Software as a Service (SaaS) segment for reasons of economy and community building says market researcher Gartner: Open Source is cheap, and communities keep it popular.
more »EnterpriseDB Open Sources GridSQL
Mar 26, 2008Today at the Open Source Business Conference, EnterpriseDB announced that GridSQL, the company´s business intelligence and data warehousing solution, is now available under the GPLv2 open source license.
more »Adobe to Sponsor SQLite
Feb 27, 2008Adobe has joined the SQLite Consortium which promotes the development of the embedded database.
more »OpenLDAP 2.4.8 with Bugfixes
Feb 20, 2008The new 2.4.8 version mainly offers bugfixes for the free OpenLDAP directory service, while adding a Slap daemon encryption feature.
more »Oracle buys Bea Systems and Captovation
Jan 31, 2008Oracle recently announced two acquisitions on the same day, with software vendor Bea Systems and document digitization specialists Captovation soon joining the database specialists.
more »New Oracle Database Driver Accelerates PHP
Oct 12, 2007High availability and scalability are Oracle’s objectives with the new database driver for PHP. The pre-release version is available for testing now.
more »Business Intelligence Appliance by Ingres
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