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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.
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more »Open Database Alliance to Save MySQL
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more »Reiserfs Experiencing Turbulent Updates
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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
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