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more »EnterpriseDB Open Sources GridSQL
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more »Adobe to Sponsor SQLite
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more »OpenLDAP 2.4.8 with Bugfixes
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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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