items tagged with MySQL
EU formally objects to Oracle purchase of Sun
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-10 17:57:58
The European Union has formally objected to Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, illustrating an obvious fact: the US is a declining financial power.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-10 17:57:58
The European Union has formally objected to Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, illustrating an obvious fact: the US is a declining financial power.
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When hackers get the blues
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-29 19:10:20
Hacking is often a lonely profession: the wee hours are generally the most productive and communicating with an inanimate object often results in people being unable to interact in a regular manner with their human counterparts.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-29 19:10:20
Hacking is often a lonely profession: the wee hours are generally the most productive and communicating with an inanimate object often results in people being unable to interact in a regular manner with their human counterparts.
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Stallman, others object to Oracle's MySQL ownership
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-22 19:08:00
Two organisations, along with Free Software Foundation head Richard M. Stallman, have written to the European Commission, asking that Oracle not be allowed to acquire MySQL as part of its larger acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-22 19:08:00
Two organisations, along with Free Software Foundation head Richard M. Stallman, have written to the European Commission, asking that Oracle not be allowed to acquire MySQL as part of its larger acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
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Open database alliance reaches takeoff stage
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-21 20:32:42
MySQL co-founder Ulf Michael Widenius's dream of having a fully-fledged Open Database Alliance is slowly reaching fruition with the announcement that the project, begun in May this year, has reached its second stage.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-21 20:32:42
MySQL co-founder Ulf Michael Widenius's dream of having a fully-fledged Open Database Alliance is slowly reaching fruition with the announcement that the project, begun in May this year, has reached its second stage.
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Sun cuts global workforce by 10 percent
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-10-21 06:40:56
Sun Microsystems has announced that 3000 more jobs must go, and blames the bureaucrats in Brussels.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-10-21 06:40:56
Sun Microsystems has announced that 3000 more jobs must go, and blames the bureaucrats in Brussels.
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14 days of the Snow Leopard: Mac OS X 10.6.1 arrives
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2009-09-10 17:14:16
Just two weeks after Snow Leopard hit the shelves, Apple has released Mac OS X 10.6.1 Update. The company has also issued a security update for its older operating systems.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2009-09-10 17:14:16
Just two weeks after Snow Leopard hit the shelves, Apple has released Mac OS X 10.6.1 Update. The company has also issued a security update for its older operating systems.
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EC launches investigation of Oracle-Sun deal
Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2009-09-03 15:34:01
The European Commission confirmed today that it will take an "in-depth" look at Oracle's pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The Commission could take up until January to decide whether the merger would have a significant anticompetitive effect.
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Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2009-09-03 15:34:01
The European Commission confirmed today that it will take an "in-depth" look at Oracle's pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The Commission could take up until January to decide whether the merger would have a significant anticompetitive effect.
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Not all databases are created equal
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-05-11 03:09:17
Software companies hurt their products by writing database engines when they’re not a database company, and by marketing teams who don’t understand why the database is important.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-05-11 03:09:17
Software companies hurt their products by writing database engines when they’re not a database company, and by marketing teams who don’t understand why the database is important.
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Oracle: what happens to MySQL and OpenSolaris?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-20 18:50:21
From a company that was touting its own progress and supposed ability to steer itself through difficult technology waters on its own, Sun Microsystems, over a few months, became an entity that was desperately looking to be acquired.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-20 18:50:21
From a company that was touting its own progress and supposed ability to steer itself through difficult technology waters on its own, Sun Microsystems, over a few months, became an entity that was desperately looking to be acquired.
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MySQL forks: Monty splits from Sun
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-25 07:38:11
Sometimes open source projects "fork." Disagreements over direction cause a splinter group to hive off and maintain their own separate code base. This is going to happen with well-known heavyweight FOSS staple, MySQL, after the original author quit Sun Microsystems earlier this month.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-25 07:38:11
Sometimes open source projects "fork." Disagreements over direction cause a splinter group to hive off and maintain their own separate code base. This is going to happen with well-known heavyweight FOSS staple, MySQL, after the original author quit Sun Microsystems earlier this month.
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Open source and open standards: the new economics of IT
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-11 22:36:01
Is open source part of the answer to the financial crisis? Ingres thinks so.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-11 22:36:01
Is open source part of the answer to the financial crisis? Ingres thinks so.
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Sun 'can be biggest open source company'
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-01-28 17:45:13
Ulf Michael Widenius, better known to open source folk as Monty, has a few things in common with Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-01-28 17:45:13
Ulf Michael Widenius, better known to open source folk as Monty, has a few things in common with Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
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LCA2009: Visa denial claims prove to be a beat-up
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-01-13 18:05:38
People in the free and open source software community are often quick to leap on journalists and label offerings by the latter as beat-ups.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-01-13 18:05:38
People in the free and open source software community are often quick to leap on journalists and label offerings by the latter as beat-ups.
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LCA2009: geeking your ride
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-01-08 19:22:46
Not for nothing is Jonathan Oxer known as Australia's geekiest man. Practically every aspect of his life at home is controlled by software - he even uses an RFID chip implanted in his arm to open his door.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-01-08 19:22:46
Not for nothing is Jonathan Oxer known as Australia's geekiest man. Practically every aspect of his life at home is controlled by software - he even uses an RFID chip implanted in his arm to open his door.
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MySQL: does marketing win over technology?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-12-10 17:59:25
When version 5.1 of the open source database MySQL was released for general availability late last month, the most surprising reaction came from its original developer and one of the co-founders of MySQL AB.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-12-10 17:59:25
When version 5.1 of the open source database MySQL was released for general availability late last month, the most surprising reaction came from its original developer and one of the co-founders of MySQL AB.
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What Twitter can teach about highly reliable and scalable web apps
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2008-12-04 21:15:11
Twitter is a popular web 2.0 site gaining huge traction in disproportion to its sheer simplicity. Twitter just asks, "What are you doing?" and nothing more. Despite this it has absolutely millions of page views with a global audience keeping in touch. Here are lessons that any business can take advantage of if they want their web apps to handle massive loads.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2008-12-04 21:15:11
Twitter is a popular web 2.0 site gaining huge traction in disproportion to its sheer simplicity. Twitter just asks, "What are you doing?" and nothing more. Despite this it has absolutely millions of page views with a global audience keeping in touch. Here are lessons that any business can take advantage of if they want their web apps to handle massive loads.
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MySQL: the Australian connection
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-05-19 12:33:32
In an age when paper qualifications and certificates of one description or another are touted as evidence of competence, it's refreshing to know that the top MySQL expert in Australia has only been officially certified on a version of the program which came out years ago.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-05-19 12:33:32
In an age when paper qualifications and certificates of one description or another are touted as evidence of competence, it's refreshing to know that the top MySQL expert in Australia has only been officially certified on a version of the program which came out years ago.
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Red Hat gets into the fast lane
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-04-03 10:38:06
Max McLaren sounds very satisified these days. Not to say that the man who's been managing Red Hat's affairs in Australia and New Zealand for nearly two years has sounded disconsolate at any time when I've spoken to him.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-04-03 10:38:06
Max McLaren sounds very satisified these days. Not to say that the man who's been managing Red Hat's affairs in Australia and New Zealand for nearly two years has sounded disconsolate at any time when I've spoken to him.
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Watch out Red Hat, there's someone following you
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-28 19:32:37
Red Hat has just released some remarkable results for the first US quarter. In a couple of years, it might find such achievements a mite harder to come by if the views of those who participated in a survey about open source recently are valid.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-28 19:32:37
Red Hat has just released some remarkable results for the first US quarter. In a couple of years, it might find such achievements a mite harder to come by if the views of those who participated in a survey about open source recently are valid.
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The dark side of open source: Hacking MySQL
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-02-09 23:14:05
Open source software advocates – like myself – will point out that a user can have confidence in the application’s integrity because the program code is readily viewable. However, not everyone who reads source code has pure intentions. Here’s how MySQL has been cracked in the past, and how you can keep safe.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-02-09 23:14:05
Open source software advocates – like myself – will point out that a user can have confidence in the application’s integrity because the program code is readily viewable. However, not everyone who reads source code has pure intentions. Here’s how MySQL has been cracked in the past, and how you can keep safe.
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