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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.
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
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.
Tags: Databases, Security, Database, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, software, founder, blog, Security
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tags: Linux, Open source, Data Management, Gentoo, Fedora Project, Package, Red Hat Inc., Yum, Debian, Grep
