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Oracle event signals Sun hardware aspirations

Oracle event signals Sun hardware aspirations

News Database giant isn't standing still, even as EU investigates its Sun Microsystems acquisition and HP and IBM promote programs to woo Sun customers.

Tuesday, September 15 2009 09:36 AM

Tags: Components, Processors, Larry Ellison, European Union, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Oracle Corp., Components, Processors


MySQL founder warns of 'fatal' bugs in version 5.1

MySQL founder warns of 'fatal' bugs in version 5.1

News Sun Microsystems releases version 5.1 of the open source database, but Michael Widenius says a number of "fatal" bugs in the new features are yet to be fixed.

Tuesday, December 02 2008 11:16 AM

Tags: Databases, Security, Database, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, software, founder, blog, Security


Sun to shed up to 6,000 jobs

Sun to shed up to 6,000 jobs

News The company has announced it will reduce its workforce by between 15 and 18 percent, and restructure its software business into three groups.

Monday, November 17 2008 01:04 AM

Tags: Layoffs, Leadership, Business applications, Open source, Open-source Database, Workforce, Storage, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems Inc., Workforce Reduction


MySQL ex-CEO tells EU to let Oracle buy Sun

News Marten Mickos urges EU antitrust regulators to approve Oracle's Sun acquisition, arguing that delay hurts customers and that Oracle won't sink Sun's MySQL group.

Friday, October 09 2009 10:47 AM

Tags: Open source, Business applications, Acquisitions, Regulations, Open Source, Database, Commission, European Commission, Business applications, MySQL ex-CEO


Report: Oracle not yielding to EU with Sun buy

News Oracle is playing hardball with European regulators concerned about its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

Wednesday, November 04 2009 12:18 PM

Tags: Mergers, Regulations, European Union, U.S. Department Of Justice, Sun Microsystems Inc., antitrust, Financial Times, Oracle Corp., Marten Mickos, proprietary software


Former MySQL CEO Mickos joins Benchmark

News Open source database company's one-time chief executive is now entrepreneur in residence at a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

Thursday, October 01 2009 10:06 AM

Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Marten Mickos, Open Source, E-mail, MySQL, Benchmark Capital, entrepreneur, software, CEO, Business Strategies & Functions


EU deepens probe into Oracle-Sun deal

News New in-depth probe will take a close look at the prospects for open source MySQL, as it investigates the impact of the deal on the database market.

Friday, September 04 2009 09:38 AM

Tags: Data Management, Hardware, Business applications, Open-source Database, Ingres, European Union, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., Hardware, Data Management


Sun introduces 2TB flash storage array

News F5100 Flash Array will deliver a low-power performance boost to transaction-heavy database operations, while cutting power usage, says Sun Microsystems.

Wednesday, October 14 2009 09:30 AM

Tags: Components, Memory, Intel Corp., F5100, Archiving, Storage, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., performance, I/O


Amazon's in-cloud database gets MySQL option

News Net retailer's cloud-computing effort is getting more sophisticated with the arrival of a database service with which more people will be familiar.

Wednesday, October 28 2009 11:12 AM

Tags: Databases, Web services, Database, Google Inc., Information Technology, Amazon.com Inc., Web Service, Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Server


US govt Web site makes open source move

News White House Web site now employing open source software. Given the U.S. federal government's widespread adoption of open source, the amazing thing is that it took so long.

Tuesday, October 27 2009 09:39 AM

Tags: Open source, Government, Drupal, Open Source, Acquia, software, Open-source Software, Associated Press, White House, proprietary software


Oracle's Sun deal: Oracle may need to loosen its grip

News Oracle may be forced by EU to give up some control open-source MySQL database software owned by Sun so as to not stifle competition.

Monday, November 09 2009 01:57 PM

Tags: Business development/management


Improve MySQL performance with MySQL Tuner

Techguide Here's a look at the basics of the MySQL Tuner tool, which analyzes your configuration and suggests changes that will boost the performance of your MySQL installation.

Monday, November 17 2008 05:24 AM

Tags: Open source, Web services, Databases, Innobase InnoDB, Database, RAM, performance, Perl, 32-bit, disk


Firewall MySQL with GreenSQL

Techguide GreenSQL is a "firewall" for MySQL databases that could help protect your database from SQL injection vulnerabilities.

Sunday, February 15 2009 06:48 PM

Tags: Open source, Firewalls, Database, Unix, SQL, Web Application, GreenSQL, SQL Injection, Linux Distribution, Linux


Quickly install a LAMP server on Ubuntu

Techguide Here are some quick and easy steps to installing a LAMP server on a running Ubuntu machine.

Friday, December 26 2008 01:32 PM

Tags: Servers, Open source, Linux, Apache Software Foundation, Web Browser, Red Hat Inc., Ubuntu, Password, Red Hat Linux 6.0, Server


Get started with the yum package manager

Techguide In this introduction to the yum package manager, you can find out about its basic configuration and some common commands.

Sunday, April 19 2009 06:11 PM

Tags: Linux, Open source, Data Management, Gentoo, Fedora Project, Package, Red Hat Inc., Yum, Debian, Grep


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Configuring VoIP in Twinkle

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If you need a reliable and capable SIP softphone for Linux, Vincent Danen suggests using the feature-rich Twinkle to configure its use.


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In Philippines, free ads site tops them all

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Last September, just after typhoon Ketsana (locally known as “Ondoy”) razed the Philippines, veteran IT chronicler Jim Ayson wrote in his blog http://jimayson.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/philippines-facebook-twitter-friendster-plurk that Facebook has become the most popular..... by Melvin G. Calimag

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Tags

  1. acquisition
  2. business applications
  3. cloud computing
  4. database
  5. databases
  6. european union
  7. hardware
  8. linux
  9. marten mickos
  10. open source
  11. open - source software
  12. oracle corp.
  13. revenue
  14. server
  15. software
  16. storage
  17. sun microsystems inc.
  18. sun solaris
  19. web