Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases
Jul 14, 2009Market researcher Forrester Research investigated the suitability of database systems for enterprise deployment and found that the Ingres and MySQl alternatives take the lead positions after IBM, Oracle and Microsoft.
more »VFAT Patch to Bypass Patent Issue
Jun 30, 2009Developer Andrew Tridgell has made known that he devised a patch to avoid the possible patent issues with the VFAT filesystem in Linux.
more »Workspace: OpenOffice.org Base Creating a submission tracker with OpenOffice.org Base
May 31, 2009Writers who submit papers to publications can create a database to track and report the status of their projects.
more »IBM System S: Stream Computing
May 26, 2009IBM's new System S analyzes business data at their creation.
more »Open Database Alliance to Save MySQL
May 16, 2009MySQL founder Monty Widenius and the Finnish MySQL services and support company Percona have joined forces to create the Open Database Alliance. The intention of the new consortium is to protect the open source status of essential MySQL components.
more »Reiserfs Experiencing Turbulent Updates
Apr 30, 2009When Jeff Mahoney sent in a bunch of patches for reiserfs, he assumed that the filesystem would be frozen in maintenance mode from that point on. Things turned out differently.
more »OSDC Conference via Live Stream
Apr 24, 2009From April 29 to April 30 the Open Source Data Center (OSDC) Conference will be held in Nuremberg, Germany. All talks of the two-day-conference will be available on live stream and video here on Linux Magazine.
more »Previews of MySQL 5.4 and MySQL Cluster 7.0
Apr 22, 2009Sun Microsystems is previewing its upcoming MySQL 5.4 and MySQL Cluster 7.0 database products.
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